News about Richard Branson

Walking her cocker spaniels along the Thames towpath before the school run, Emma Sayle looks every inch the typical south London yummy mummy. Blonde, affluent and athletic (a rowing mate of Kate Middleton, she attended the same boarding school), in addition to the dogs, Rex and Bob, the 46-year-old has three children, aged five, seven and nine and is chairman of their primary school PTA. Emma's talents, though, extend far beyond organising a charity bake sale: an adrenaline junkie who has climbed Kilimanjaro and run marathons across the Sahara, she is the founder and CEO of Killing Kittens, a female-centric sex party business.

Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old from St. Augustine, Florida , died Friday night hours after the shocking display, said to be 'an 'extreme act of protest...[against] a totalitarian con, and our own government' on his own Substack. The Florida native was a graduate from Rutgers University, where he received a master's degree in city and regional planning in 2012, friends said. He was rushed to a nearby hospital's burn unit where died just before 11 pm, sources familiar with the matter added Friday night - hours after was seen throwing a stack of pamphlets that included a link to his conspiracy-laden Substack seconds before igniting. In interviews carried out within that span, several who knew Azzarello described a different sort of man from the one responsible for a slew of rambling, paranoid posts plastered throughout his social media.

EXCLUSIVE: When a Canadian reality TV star and her plastic surgery tycoon husband bought a historic Kent castle, locals feared the worst. How could the couple, Ann and Stephen Mulholland - who own 11 homes including a penthouse in Las Vegas and a pile in Hawaii - possibly fit in? Has there ever been a slightly more odd combination than the glamorous pair and the Grade 1 listed, 1,000-year-old, 19-000 square-foot, 140-acre medieval Lympne Castle? Previously photographed dancing in a bikini with topless billionaire Richard Branson on his Necker Island, Ann - reportedly worth £500 million - admits it was a 'crazy' decision. They are spending £25 million on the property in the village with just 1,575 people. Locals in the local village pub, shops and park admit they had 'no idea' what would become of the property, a longstanding tourist attraction.

More information about the Brisbane Lions' end-of-season trip have surfaced, with concerns about a board member's participation now being raised. During their luxurious trip to the United States last October, Australian Rich Lister and Brisbane Lions board member Cathie Reid traveled with the team.

Following a £206 million loss the previous year, the airline reported losses of £139 million for 2023. However, revenues increased by £265 million to a record £3.1 billion as high-spending British holidaymakers splashed out on winter breaks in the Caribbean. Virgin Atlantic is now profiting from tourists' booking spring and summer trips to Europe and its expansion into India.

The work of Britain's Takeover Panel is lauded for its clarity. It establishes the rules for bids and contracts, but it avoids the court quagmire that is often seen in the United States. Nevertheless, a tight deadline for making a bid and concluding a contract favors the acquirer more than often, contributing to the ease with which international predators have acquired iconic companies.

People are encouraged to get their mischief on on April 1, and no one has a better chance of fooling more people than a celebrity. Those who go the extra mile on April Fools' Day every year are those with piles of cash and lots of eyes on it. Many celebrities have taken part in everything from jokes about each other to faking new bizarre undertakings.

Last week, the UK reached an agreement to buy Virgin Money for £2.9 billion to create a lender with 25 million clients and almost 700 branches. As part of the takeover, the building society has agreed to keep all Virgin Money branches open for at least four years. Following the merger, Virgin Money chief executive David Duffy will be replaced by Nationwide finance chief Chris Rhodes.

Debbie Crosbie is a Chief Executive in a hurry. The Nationwide CEO is worried that if the mutual lender is barred from making its offer for Virgin Money within 28 days, the timetable for the Takeover Panel is lost to the mutual lender. Since beginning its quest for Virgin Money on March 7, the country has been under pressure to hand over the building society's 16 million or so members a note.

Success Resources Australia, the booking agent for speakers including Virgin founder Richard Branson and Rich Dad author Robert Kiyosaki, owes $300,00 to thousands of Robbins' followers. On several occasions, the company has stated that it would refund tickets to the self-help guru's shows that were postponed during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has since gone silent. Frustrated ticket-holders have tried all avenues to recover their money, but their pleas have fell on deaf ears, with some saying that refunds will only be given if they promise to sign non-disclosure agreements. Robbins' three followers were still owed almost $10,000 each, according to Daily Mail Australia.

When Cara Miller was eight years old, she started a campaign. Her bedroom drawers, which are in a massive Victorian pine chest, won't open. 'I had to wiggle them to get my clothes out,' she says. 'I was so ill.' She then asked her parents for an Ikea wardrobe.

What makes a good beach? For others, it's all about the sand's quality: the finer and whiter the better. Others may just want peace, quiet, and seclusion. By tumbling dunes, a rustic retreat, you can find a perfect little rum shack or beach cafe. We've asked the world's best travel experts and industry insiders for their all-time favorites, as well as how to enjoy them. Maadhoo in the Maldives' southern Male Atoll, bottom left: Radhanagar beach on Havelock Island, Andaman Islands. Top right: Morgan's Rock beach outside of San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, and bottom right: The Blue Lagoon in Turkey by Oludeniz.

Virgin Money, which was established by Richard Branson in 1995 and pays the tycoon to use the Virgin name, will cost the tycoon 220p a share, or £2.9 billion. As Nationwide intensifies its war against the major High Street banks, the proposed deal will result in a business with £366 billion in assets and almost 700 branches.

The challenger banks in the United Kingdom are falling like nine pins. In many ways, it's a significant shame because the Big Four lenders' services are depleting and branch closures have left small businesses and private customers feeling lonely. When Virgin, Tesco, and other newcomers joined the fray, it seemed as if it was a new dawn.

Limobike is a luxurious motorcycle courier service that transports the ultra wealthy and ultra popular around London. Customers of the service now include actors Kate Garraway and Roman Kemp, who were originally created by Richard Branson for Virgin passengers. We decided to try it out.

Odysseus, a static lander built by Intuitive Machines, touched down in a crater near the Moon's southern pole on Thursday night. All went according to plan, save for the craft landing on its own, perhaps due to a broken leg. However, its batteries and sensors are working, and the results obtained could be a landmark in lunar scientific observation. Odysseus' true significance, on the other hand, is even greater. This was the first commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon. We are at the beginning of a new age of humankind: capitalism's conquest of the cosmos. Odysseus was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket created by SpaceX, one of a string of billionaires, including Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, who are committed to cosmic exploration, including Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.

And now, it's impossible to tell The Body Shop from its charismatic founder. Anita Roddick was omnipotent, never off a soapbox or television; rather, a feminist businesswoman speaking in the same buccaneering breath as Richard Branson or Freddie Laker. It was her belief that business could be a force for good, and she would zig-zag the globe, procuring Brazilian nuts and hemp from indigenous peoples to make her own concoctions; protecting the world while also saving your complexion; and all the while campaigning in earnest for worthy causes. Her greatest activism was to save the rainforest and increase trade links with the developing world. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Ogoni people from Nigeria, the Kayapo tribe of Brazil, and Boys Town in Kerala, India, she supported. In every Body Shop outlet, you'll often have to battle a select line of slogans, banners, and Roddick's worthy obsessions.

Richard Branson has posted a snapshot of his burns after hitting a pothole and flying off his bike in Virgin Gorda. The billionaire Virgin founder said he cried "hard" in the cycling crash, but said he avoided breaking any bones. Daredevil Branson posted an image of the aftermath on Instagram and wrote: 'Took quite a big tumble while cycling in Virgin Gorda a little while ago!'

EXCLUSIVE: John Mackenzie (left), 49, of County Antrim, Norther Ireland, took out loans worth £24,000 from Amigo, a company founded by James Benamor (right), beginning in 2016. He told MailOnline that he has been fighting with Amigo and the Financial Conduct Authority for years over his debt repayments. 'All I want is my money back so I can pay my bills and sort out my personal life,' businessman Mr Mackenzie said. 'If my case had been dealt with at the time I first submitted it, my money would have been returned with interest.' Now that Amigo is in power, they're still sitting on the money, and I can't afford to live.'

Since marrying sister Azure Antoinette in a surprise wedding in Las Vegas, Business Chicks founder Emma Issacs has shocked colleagues and family. On Tuesday, the 43-year-old Australian entrepreneur tied the knot in a laid back ceremony with her US sweetheart and then shared the news to followers on her social media. They were later photographed in a gallery after the wedding strolled Las Vegas's neon streets.

Following a routine inspection that revealed a portion of its plane mid-flight, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic was forced to ground all flights. On the first flight of the year, the space tourism corporation claims an alignment pin had been 'intentionally detached' from the mothership, VMS Eve. This pin helps ensure that the space plane, VMS Unity, is aligned with VMS Eve as it passes near the edge of space. Virgin Galactic's safety, according to the airline's Galactic 06, was unaffected. However, no further flights will be allowed until the FAA, the flight regulator in the United States, has launched a'mishap probe.'

In an episode called Friends and Family released in 2016, the Simpsons displayed scenes similar to what people are posting online of Apple Vision Pro virtual reality headsets taking over culture. Apple's new $3,500 Vision Pro was unveiled in-store on Friday, and followers have posted videos of them using the new technology in everyday life. A montage shows all the characters wearing virtual reality sets as they walk into lamp posts and fall into potholes in The Simpsons episode. Now, similar scenes of Apple Vision wearing people are being posted on social media.

Timothy Armoo, 28, was born in Hackney but who hails from Ghana, co-founded Fanbytes, a famous influencer company, when he was just 21 years old. Timothy Alchemy, Fred Santana, and Dennis Skinner, who appeared on popular lifestyle podcast 90s Baby Show, told hosts Temi Alchemy, Fred Santana, and Dennis Skinner that his pioneering idea earned him a whopping eight figure contract in just five years after selling the business to Brainlabs in May 2022. In a video shared on YouTube, he debunks Fanbytes' genius and what he believes set his idea apart from the rest of the pack. (Pictured:

The world's richest have invested hundreds of millions of dollars on underground tunnels, private islands, and (for the merely wealthy)'survival condos.' Some wealthy people in secluded nations such as New Zealand are paying for 'golden visas.' But here's how the world's rich are preparing for the worst and how the rest of us can get our 'doomsday prepping' done on a budget