Manchester United make ticket price U-turn ahead of two crucial Premier League fixtures

Manchester United make ticket price U-turn ahead of two crucial Premier League fixtures

-Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited Manchester United have reintroduced concessionary rates for two of their upcoming Premier League fixtures. United have come in for criticism after they made the decision to raise matchday ticket prices to £66-per-game, scrapping their concessionary rates. The club said the increase will only affect a small number of fans as 97 … Read more

BMW, Yamaha Motor back US rare earths startup Phoenix Tailings

BMW, Yamaha Motor back US rare earths startup Phoenix Tailings

By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – BMW and Yamaha Motor have invested in U.S.-based rare earths processing startup Phoenix Tailings, the latest move by manufacturers to boost production of the strategic metals outside of China. Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles, cell … Read more

‘Preying on investors’: how software firm MicroStrategy’s big bet on bitcoin went stratospheric

‘Preying on investors’: how software firm MicroStrategy’s big bet on bitcoin went stratospheric

As of 31 December, MicroStrategy had spent $27.9bn acquiring a total of 446,400 bitcoins.Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies around the world, an obscure US software firm decided to diversify. MicroStrategy, whose head office is situated next to a shopping mall and metro station in Tysons Corner, … Read more

Parcel lockers on supermarket car park broken into and raided

Parcel lockers on supermarket car park broken into and raided

A set of parcel lockers have been raided and emptied in a theft. The InPost lockers on the Lidl car park on Dale Street in Radcliffe is thouht to have been broken into over the weekend (December 28-29). An engineer is set to go to the site and repair the lockers. Read more: Teenager stabbed in chest outside pub A InPost spokesperson said: “InPost is aware of … Read more