Bridgepoint has today been announced as the preferred bidder for the sale of Leeds Bradford International Airport, with Barclays Private Equity with Churchill Airports as the reserve bidder. ... [more]

BP is to sell its Coryton refinery in Essex, which employs 540 staff and about 500 contractors, to Petroplus Holdings of Switzerland for about £700m.... [more]

Anglo American, the international mining company that has been the subject of takeover speculation for a number of months, would be more likely to dispose of individual divisions instead according to ... [more]

British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, the UK state-owned nuclear power company, has begun the disposal of assets by launching the sale of its reactor sites management business.... [more]

Cookson is to sell its US-based Monofrax fused-cast refractories business to RHI of Austria for £23m.... [more]

Scottish Power has acquired the Hatfield Moor gas storage site in South Yorkshire from Edinburgh Oil & Gas for £11m.... [more]

Industry insiders familiar with international mining group Anglo American believe that the company could look at the sale of its Tarmac and Tongaat divisions in order to focus on its core mining busin... [more]

Slough Estates, the UK property and investment development company, has put its US arm up for sale as it prepares to convert itself into a real estate investment trust (REIT). The US business provides... [more]

West Coast Energy, the renewable energy provider based in Wales and Scotland, is tipped to sell off a number of its UK wind projects following the sale of the Darracott wind farm to Iberdola, the Span... [more]

Dominion, the US energy producer, has announced it is to put the majority of its oil and natural gas production assets up for sale.... [more]

British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL), the UK state-owned nuclear power company, has put its marketing and trading division up for sale. ... [more]

Henderson Infrastructure Holdco, part of fund management company Henderson Global Investors, may sell Chiltern Railways if its offer for UK construction company John Laing is accepted. Chiltern Railwa... [more]

Talisman Energy, the Canadian oil and gas company, is to sell its non-core assets in the Brae area of the UK North Sea. The assets consist of an 18% interest in the South, North, Central, West Brae an... [more]

Sea Containers, the US-listed shipping firm, is working on a sale of its GNER UK railway business. The business could be worth £200m. Cash from a sale would be put towards paying down debt. Sources sa... [more]