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"I have heard the oil tanker with 58 million litres of aviation fuel, was at anchor in the estuary, when a cargo ship T-boned it"

Yes it was a USA registered ship at anchor, not sure on the nationality of the other, but hoping Canadian!

'thats just off the coast near me'

Just outside the humber estuary, off withernsea kind of area, about 10 miles out so you won't see it from sea level but might see the smoke if the fog clears

Both ships seem to be on fire now. I'm just a few miles up the coast and looking out to sea, it's really foggy so that won't be helping

"If you think you get both sides of story from any nations media you need to grow up"

He says, while parroting the kremlin, lol

'The lies you once lapped up..'

The irony coming from someone currently lapping up kremlin lies

For the record, I went to London and marched against the WMD lies, I saw them quite clearly and I see the ones from the kremlin quite clearly now, shame you can't.

I'm guessing reading comprehension isn't your strong point if you think I have confirmed what you said. Never mind, I tried.

"Ironic really, this all started because of nato expansion onto Russias doorstep"

The last country to join NATO on 'Russia's doorstep' was in 2004!

Every aggressor comes up with justifications whenever they invade other people's countries - even the Nazis put the effort in to come up with a few excuses; the Gleiwitz incident and the USA with the Gulf of Tonkin and of course WMD in Iraq... history is peppered with these specious pretexts for military aggression. It's a form of victim blaming.

You'd have to be a bit gullible to believe them, never mind to go around repeating them, especially ones from the Kremlin.

CEO Dilnot said that the full weight of the increased defense spending expected in the coming months due to the uncertain geopolitical landscape had “arguably not” been accounted for in the Melrose figures, suggesting the company may see further improvements if promised investments are honored.

He said Melrose was well placed to benefit from this spending, on both sides of the Atlantic. “We have established positions on all the major platforms…such as the F35. That position is strong,” he said. “Look at the world around us…clearly defence spending is going one way.”

https://leehamnews.com/2025/03/06/melrose-sets-ambitious-profit-targets-eyes-defense-boost/

"Even David Lenigas is very upbeat on this drilling"

Jesus that's a red flag if ever I saw one. Lenigas, the guy with the reverse midas touch!

ah yes, we definitely need an authoritarian right wing oligarchal government to take away our freedom and way of life, as long as it hurts the ***s and the brown people more than us that would be great /s

morons cheering for their own demise

"Sidara in no rush unless they go in for the kill and offer £1.50 plus - think they will bide their time and offer a pound and then slowly but surely increase their offer from there"

They very much are in a rush. They know that much of the business's value is in people and they're keen to act before disgruntled staff head for the exit. That's what it says in the FT piece.

"always agree with some profit taking but I avoid when it’s rising strongly"

When it's going strongly I'm more likely to increase my position rather than trim it.

I'll tend to trim when it's falling rather than average down.

A leader who wants peace by surrendering to a dictatorial aggressor. Genuflecting for the russia isn't much of an achievement really, the art of the kneel!

I know, I'm a msm sheep, lacking your razor sharp insight into geopolitics that you gleaned, unknowingly, from thr kremlin

" I'm sure negotiations will be continuing over the weekend."

I've been involved in a takeover, if it's anything like that then 100% they will be working through the weekend to get it done

The shorts are just hedging massive long positions, sensible to do that just in case

"As I said earlier they have to mid March to put an offer on the table this will go on for a few weeks"

I don't think so. It's reported that sidara want to move quickly to ensure retention of key staff who are unhappy under the current regime.

So they're aware of the impact on morale and will be trying to wrap this up ASAP to minimise damage and not drag it out to the statutory deadline imo

Maybe just hedging? You'd have to be crazy to have a naked short when news of a cash offer could drop at any time.

"Do we really think they could approach, offer and accept in 3 days? I doubt it"

It's not the first time they've approached so most of the due dilligence is done.

Also, we don't know how long they had already been talking when the news leaked.

So it is quite possible that an indicative offer has been put on the table.

Looks like it's moving now, can see some upwards pressure tomorrow with people not wanting to miss a monday morning RNS

Waiting for you to say 'wake up sheeple'.

So confident, so stupid