Monday, 15 August 2016, 2:51 pm
I see Rank, 888 Holdings and William Hill have all effectively confirmed my tale from the weekend in the Mail on Sunday and on Betaville yesterday that the "consortium" was planning to raise its indicative offer for the bookie.
Here are the links to the various statements that came out this morning: ..
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Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 6:53 pm
I must say this William Hill situation really has thrown up some quite bizarre behaviour by "people close to the situation".
I understand that some "people close to the situation" (you know who you are) had been claiming my scoop from a couple of weeks ago in The Sunday Times about Rank and 888 holding merger talks ahead of making a £3 billion bid for William Hill wasn't a true "scoop" because we didn't get the story "quite right"...
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