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FirstGroup shares accelerate after deal to terminate TransPennine contract A look at the major movers on the London market on Tuesday It may be a down day for the markets overall, but FirstGroup PLC (LON:FGHP ) has managed to travel in the right direction. Its shares are up 2.11% or 1.55p to 75p after the transport group agreed to pay the Department for Transport a final £6mln to cancel its TransPennine Express railway franchise, taking the total it has paid to £48.5mln. It said this was around £50m better than its last assumption. The group has already given up the South Western Railway...

Revolution Bars Group saw its share price climb by 14.1 per cent today after it said its bars had traded 'extremely strongly' since some of them reopened last month. The company said significant pent-up demand meant sales in the four weeks to May 9 were just under half its pre-pandemic levels despite reduced operating hours and 'the often unseasonably cold weather.' Twenty of Revolution's English bars reopened on April 13 when the UK government allowed hospitality venues to serve customers outdoors, and it has opened another five since that date. Quiet inside: Twenty of Revolution's English b...

FirstGroup shares accelerate after deal to terminate TransPennine contract A look at the major movers on the London market on Tuesday It may be a down day for the markets overall, but FirstGroup PLC (LON:FGHP ) has managed to travel in the right direction. Its shares are up 2.11% or 1.55p to 75p after the transport group agreed to pay the Department for Transport a final £6mln to cancel its TransPennine Express railway franchise, taking the total it has paid to £48.5mln. It said this was around £50m better than its last assumption. The group has already given up the South Western Railway...

Stonegate launches head office career pathway Stonegate Group has launched its new in-house training pathway, Albert’s Interesting Map to Success, or AIMS.  The pathway has been designed for the company’s head office support staff and is available across all roles – amounting to more than 600 different specific learning pathways from level two, all the way to level seven (masters level).  AIMS hopes to engage in excess of 1,000 support staff, across both the managed and lease and tenanted divisions, once established. The pathway has been designed to include both online and in-person l...

Relief effort: Under the Australian scheme, the government has made it mandatory for landlords to agree to a reduction in rent payable, of up to 100%, in proportion to the reduction in the tenant’s business during Covid-19 (Image: flyparade/Getty Images) A group of hospitality operators and property agents are calling on the Government to implement the same rent relief scheme as has been adopted in Australia, according to reports by MCA Insight. Peter Thornton, Australian CFO of live-music venues The Piano Works, alongside David Abramson, CEO of leisure property...