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By Tom Orde Crime and court reporter Jacob Mulhall outside Southampton Crown Court A PUB CHEF who sold cannabis at “street-level” moved more than £16,000 through his bank account over a year and a half, a court heard. Jacob Mulhall was pulled over driving a silver Renault Clio which was “known to be connected with drug dealing”. The 25-year was searched and found to have “two lumps of cannabis resin” on October 24, 2019. Meanwhile, in the car, there were 12 bags of cocaine totalling around fiv...

Boris Johnson will hold fresh Brexit talks today after the latest bid to break the deadlock on fishing fell flat. The Prime Minister is expected to warn European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen that failure to accept Britain’s right to control its own fishing grounds will sink hopes of a trade deal. Mr Johnson yesterday urged EU leaders to ‘see sense’ by dropping demands which he said ‘no sensible Government’ could accept.  During a visit to Bolton, he suggested the UK had already made ‘a lot’ of concessions and now needed to see movement from Brussels. ‘Our door is ope...

Capita plc - Agreement to sell Education Software Solutions PR Newswire Agreement to sell Education Software Solutions Capita plc ('Capita') today announces that it has agreed to sell its Education Software Solutions ('ESS') business to Tiger UK Bidco Limited, a newly formed company established by funds advised by Montagu Private Equity ('Montagu'), in a deal that values ESS at up to £400m. ESS is a standalone provider of management information system (MIS) and related software for the education sector. Part of the consideration agreed is for Montagu to assume liabilities such as working cap...

Wednesday night's Brexit dinner in Brussels - a dinner that descended into a deadlock that threatens to tip Britain towards No Deal - had actually started with a joke.

STOCKING FILLERS  Dieting tip of the year comes from Jilly Cooper: ‘Paste photographs of girls in bikinis on all the biscuit tins.’ Other highlights in Between The Covers (Penguin, £14.99), a collection of Cooper’s newspaper columns from the 1970s, include how to deal with Christmas cards — ‘I cover every available piece of furniture with ours; it is such a marvellous excuse not to dust for a month’ — and the tale of her red scarf accidentally finding its way into the wash: her husband was the only member of his rugby team to have a rose-pink jockstrap. The Get Your Teenage Bo...