It would appear the French may be willing to throw their hat in the ring for FTSE 250-listed budget airline easyJet.
So Italian hacks at the Corriere della Sera are reporting that US investment firm Castlelake is looking to team up with the Mediterranean Shipping Company to mount a joint bid for FTSE 250-listed easyJet.
Apologies Betavillers - it would appear little old Betaville made a mistake when suggesting activist short seller Grizzly was an anonymous short seller.
Some market observers might have thought the bears would be scared off by what's been going in the US with Andrew Left of Citron Research.
Castlelake has announced it owns 2.14pc of easyJet.
I see American investment firm Castlelake has now confirmed little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert from earlier today.
Little old Betaville suggested the gloves may be off in the fight between Headlam Group's chairman and the company's largest shareholder and now the latter appears to have thrown a decent jab.
Oliver "An Englishman in New York" Barnes is on a bit of a hot streak at the moment.
It's taken months but Spire Healthcare has finally received an actual indicative offer from a bidder.
Three way deals don't happen very often in the London market.
Richard Livingstone has disclosed he has a sizeable stake in Whitbread, the FTSE 100-listed operator of the Premier Inn hotel chain.
The gloves are well and truly off!
It sounds like the war of words between Headlam Group, the London-listed floor covering distributor, and its largest shareholder First Seagull is going to get really punchy.
So returning at a later date was the plan after all!
Headlam Group has this morning confirmed little old Betaville's alert published over the weekend about the move by the company's shareholders to oust the chairman of the group.
One of the largest investors in Headlam Group, the London-listed flooring products distributor, has launched a campaign to oust the company's chairman and several other board directors.
It would appear PNE AG, the Germany-listed renewable energy company, is back "in play", again!