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The owner of Patisserie Valerie has suspended trading in its shares “pending clarification of the company’s financial position” amid an inquiry into potential fraud. The announcement on Wednesday morning followed a story by Sky News hours earlier that Patisserie Holdings was investigating a multimillion-pound hole in its accounts that could exceed £20m.In a later statement, the company disclosed that it had just become aware of a winding-up petition that had been filed against is main subsidiary, Stonebeach, relating to £1.14m owed to the UK tax office, HM Revenue and Customs.It said it was in touch with HMRC “with the objective…

The army is investigating after Tommy Robinson posted a video of himself with trainee soldiers who start singing his name. The far-right activist, 35, also shared a photo of himself posing with the smiling young men on Instagram.Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, says at the start of the video: “It’s the most honourable morning I’ve ever had anyway.”He then pans round to show the trainees, who are all wearing camouflage, as they cheer and start singing.The English Defence League founder, who met the trainees at Watford Gap motorway services, wrote in an accompanying post: “A moment like this makes it…

Britain’s competition watchdog has launched a fast-track review into the audit sector after concerns raised following the collapse of construction giant Carillion. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will look at the dominance of the “big four” accounting giants Deloitte, KPMG, EY and PwC in checking the books of the UK’s largest companies.It will study how easy it is for businesses to switch auditors and whether the big four are seen as “too big to fail”, potentially threatening long term competition.The CMA – which plans to issue provisional findings before Christmas – is also set to look at whether it…

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has met the Saudi Arabian ambassador to “seek answers” over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr Hunt tweeted: “Just met the Saudi ambassador to seek urgent answers over Jamal Khashoggi. Violence against journalists worldwide is going up & is a grave threat to freedom of expression. If media reports prove correct, we will treat the incident seriously – friendships depend on shared values.” Just met the Saudi ambassador to seek urgent answers over Jamal Khashoggi. Violence against journalists worldwide is going up & is a grave threat to freedom of expression. If media reports prove correct, we…

A clinical waste disposal firm has been stripped of its NHS contracts after hundreds of tonnes of hospital waste, including human body parts, was allowed to pile up at its facilities. Speaking in the Commons, health minister Stephen Barclay announced Healthcare Environmental Services has been served with termination notices by 15 NHS trusts.It follows a report by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), which said said one HES site held excess waste five times its capacity, equalling 350 tonnes including infectious fluids, amputated limbs and substances from cancer treatments.HSJ reported that an emergency government meeting was called over the stockpiling last…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has taken aim at Brexit and the US trade war with China, warning that “the world will be a poorer and more dangerous place” without multilateralism. The fund’s economic counsellor Maurice Obstfeld, who is retiring at the year’s end, made the remarks while outlining downgrades to global growth for 2018 and 2019 in its latest World Economic Outlook.The report, published at a meeting in Bali, showed the IMF was now predicting economic growth of 3.7% this year – down from the 3.9% it had forecast in July.The IMF said the tit-for-tat tariffs imposed by the…

Thousands of Florida residents have been ordered to leave their homes as Hurricane Michael heads for the state’s coast. The storm has already killed 13 people in Central America as it battered Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba with rain and winds of up to 85mph.By the time it reaches Florida on Wednesday local time, it is expected to be a category three hurricane with winds of more than 100mph and storm surges of up to 3.7m (12ft).This would make it the strongest storm to hit the northwestern part of the state, known as the Panhandle, since Hurricane Dennis in…

The identity of the second suspect in the Salisbury poisoning has been revealed as Dr Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin, a doctor in Russia’s military intelligence agency. The Bellingcat investigative website posted the name online almost a fortnight after it outed the first suspect as Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, 39, also a GRU officer.British police last month accused the two men of attempting to assassinate Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, and his daughter Yulia with a novichok nerve agent in Salisbury. Image: The passport of Salisbury poisoning suspect Alexander Mishkin Prime Minister Theresa May has said the attack was “almost certainly”…

Theresa May is remaining cautious about Brexit negotiations, warning there are big issues which still need to be resolved with the EU. Mrs May’s spokesman said there is a difference between optimistic talk about a deal being done and it actually happening.The EU still needs to move its position for negotiations to proceed and there can be no withdrawal agreement without a precise future framework with the EU, he added.His comments came after European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said he is sure an agreement could be reached in November ahead of the UK leaving in March.Mr Juncker told three Austrian…

The rape and murder of a Bulgarian journalist was an “execution” and meant as a warning, according to an investigative website. Viktoria Marinova’s body was found on Saturday in a park by the River Danube in the northern town of Ruse.The 30-year-old victim, who had reported on an investigation into alleged corruption involving EU funds, suffered blows to the head and had been suffocated.Ruse prosecutor Georgy Georgiev said her mobile phone, car keys, glasses and some of her clothes were missing.The murder case has shocked fellow journalists and sparked international condemnation. Image: Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in Malta a…