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Rights issues

August 2024

  • Dr Diana Warner, with short hair and in a dress with an art deco pattern, stands in the grass next to a bench, looking left

    ‘It’s sometimes right to disobey laws’: Doctor suspended for Insulate Britain protests speaks out

    Convicted of non-violent offences in Insulate Britain action, Dr Diana Warner is second GP to have licence suspended, which a medical tribunal ruled could damage patient trust

May 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Forget Thames Water, National Grid has proved investors will still back UK assets

    Nils Pratley
    The infrastructure company easily raised almost £7bn in a rights issue – because it has its balance sheet in order and plans to invest

August 2023

  • An attendee at the Milan autumn-winter menswear show 2023 in Jimmy Lion x Basquiat socks

    Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?

    Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles

January 2023

  • Police investigate the VK Garment factory in Mae Sot, Thailand, in December.

    Thai police accused of ‘sham’ forced labour inquiry at former Tesco supplier

    Exclusive: Officials took one day to conclude no laws were broken at VK Garment factory and workers say their words were deleted

December 2022

  • People ride into the compound of the VKG factory in Mae Sot, Thailand.

    Thai police screen ex-workers at former Tesco supplier over sweatshop claims

    Interviews follow raid on VK Garment factory, the subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workers
  • Police and labour officials at the VK Garment factory

    Thai police raid former Tesco clothing supplier at centre of sweatshop claims

    VK Garment factory in Mae Sot is subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workers
  • Workers inside VKG factory in Mae Sot, a city near the Myanmar border

    Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’

    Exclusive: Supermarket faces landmark lawsuit in the UK from 130 former workers alleging negligence

October 2022

  • The Fashion Workers Act would establish labor protections for models and others working in the industry.

    Proposed New York law aims to protect fashion models from exploitation

    The Fashion Workers Act would curb abuses ranging from enforced financial dependency to sex trafficking

October 2020

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Rolls-Royce's rights issue is emergency button it should have pressed sooner

    Nils Pratley
    Assuming the financial package is completed, collapse or a full-blown state bailout should be off the table for a while

June 2020

  • EasyJet’s chief executive Johan Lundgren

    EasyJet launches £450m rights issue to shore up Covid defence

    Issue, worth up to 15% of share capital, could be opposed by founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou

February 2020

  • Doors to Intu’s Trafford shopping centre, Manchester

    Debt-hit shopping centre firm Intu extends overdraft

  • The MEP Nathalie Loiseau.

    UK alignment on EU standards price to pay for trade deal, say MEPs

November 2019

  • Ancient Tree

    Should this tree have the same rights as you?

    Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, lakes and mountains. Robert Macfarlane investigates the rise of the new animism

January 2019

  • Bjørn Kjos in front of a picture of a Norwegian plane

    Norwegian launches £270m rights issue after rebuffing IAG

    Lossmaking airline turns to shareholders to raise funds following rapid expansion

May 2018

  • Ewan Murray

    Augusta and Sky’s disagreements over Masters coverage will not be resolved in a bubble

    Ewan Murray
    The host and the main UK broadcaster’s difficult relationship raises the possibility of all four days of the Masters returning to the BBC. Whatever happens will reverberate through the game

February 2018

  • Taylor Swift performs at the 2016 Grammy awards.

    Taylor Swift copyright lawsuit dismissed by US judge

    Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler alleged the singer stole the lyrics to their song Playas Gon’ Play for her 2014 hit Shake It Off

July 2017

  • Theresa May delivers a speech on modern working practices

    Politics Weekly UK
    MP abuse and the gig economy - Politics Weekly podcast

    Anushka Asthana is joined by Matthew Taylor, Boni Sones, Robert Booth and Sonia Sodha to discuss the abuse faced by politicians on social media and elsewhere and the government’s response to a new review of self-employment and the ‘gig economy’

July 2016

  • The scene at Hawkeswood Metal Recycling in the Nechells area of Birmingham where the five men died.

    Birmingham: 'He was very healthy ... then he came here and he's dead'

    Investigations are under way into the deaths of five men crushed by a concrete wall at metal recycling plant

April 2016

  • An Instagram post by Gorman

    Poor workers' rights rating tears apart Gorman clothing brand's fans

    Devotees of the popular brand have been left searching their brightly coloured souls since the Australian company got an F on policies to stop exploitation of overseas workers

January 2016

  • Thomas' Country Walk<br>Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), Welsh poet, short-story writer and playwright, walking with his wife Caitlin, 10th August 1946. Original Publication : Picture Post - 4156 - A Nest Of Singing Birds - pub. 1946 (Photo by Francis Reiss/Picture Post/Getty Images)

    Dylan Thomas copyright claims thrown out by Irish court

    Man suffers double blow after suing Welsh government over use of historic images and bringing libel case against photographer’s 93-year-old widow
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