Towergate has acquired the general insurance arm of Medical Insurance Agency which includes a call centre in Stevenage providing motor home and surgery insurance... [more]

Cedar Group is acquiring Enterprise Solutions Group the US IT services consultancy from Renaissance Worldwide for £51m... [more]

Balfour Beatty has bought the rail electrification business of Adtranz for £94m which will strengthen its presence in markets such as Germany and Sweden... [more]

UBC Media is planning to acquire Classic Gold the radio company from GWR for £2.1m... [more]

Invensys is to sell its pneumatics business to Parker Hannifin of the US for £27m... [more]

Communisis has sold its Jaycare pharmaceutical packaging business to a company backed by 3i for £29m while its envelopes business is being sold to Bong Ljungdahl of Sweden for £7.5m... [more]

Sirdar has acquired Ryalux the carpet manufacturer for £25m and has also announced the sale of its lossmaking Eversure Textiles division... [more]

Amey is raising £42m in a share placing in order to fund the acquisition of a 50% stake in BCN Data Systems the developer of technology to monitor security systems and cash machines for £14m. ... [more]

Hanson has bought 14 UK operations from Tarmac for £33m including limestone sand and gravel quarries a concrete plant and an asphalt plant... [more]

Nomura is to buy the First Quench off-licence chain from Whitbread and Punch for £225m and plans to invest in training and technology at the 2500 branches... [more]

Tenon Group has acquired the non-audit operations of London-based Morison Stoneham for £10m as part of a strategy to create a network of accounting services firms... [more]

Bradford & Bingley has sold its company relocation division to Cendant for undisclosed terms and Cendant will use the Windsor-based business as a base to expand its European operations... [more]

AEA Technology has acquired NSTO the technology division of Dutch national railways Nederlandse Spoorwegen for £0.9m... [more]

Walker Greenbank is selling its John Perry and Cole & Son wallpaper operations to a new company called Karen Beauchamp for about £3m. ... [more]

SFI the pub operator is to acquire Break for the Border from Capital Bars of Dublin for £4.7m... [more]

HR Owen has acquired Jack Barclay the London-based Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealership from Dutton Forshaw for undisclosed terms... [more]

Standard Chartered has sold its Chartered Trust leasing and motor finance subsidiary to Lloyds TSB for £627m and has also announced the acquisition of Chase Manhattan's credit card business in Hong Ko... [more]

Cinven is selling General Hospitals the private hospitals group to private equity firm BC Partners £1.2bn.... [more]

British Telecom has sold its aeronautical and maritime communications division to Stratos Global of Canada for £157m as part of a strategy to reduce debt by selling non-core operations... [more]