Spice has acquired Mono Services, the Eccles-based housing maintenance firm with 123 staff, from Mavinwood for £0.5m.... [more]

Cobra Holdings has acquired Opal Mortgage Life & Pensions, the London-based independent financial adviser, for up to £0.5m.... [more]

Norton & Townsend, the London-based network of bespoke tailors, has been bought out of administration by Salts of Saltaire for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Centrica has acquired Solar Technologies Group, the solar energy installation contractor, for £2.8m.... [more]

Bloomsbury Publishing is going to buy Oxford International Publishers, the Oxford-based independent academic publishing company trading as Berg with 15 employees, for £2m.... [more]

French energy group EDF are to put four sites, for building new reactors, on the market after the £12.5bn purchase of British Energy.The sites, which are likely to be put up for sale, include Dungenes... [more]

FXOnline, the Japanese foreign exchange trading firm with 45 employees, is going to sell an 87% stake in the business to IG Group, for £112m.... [more]

Folder Media has bought Fun Radio, the children's broadcaster, for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

Griffiths & Armour is to sell its financial services division to Charles Stanley. 35 Liverpool-based employees will be transferred.... [more]

TRO, the events agency with 150 staff in Norwich and Wymondham, has been bought by CPM Group for an undisclosed amount.... [more]

AESSEAL is to transfer production of some mechanical seals from India to Rotherham following the acquisition of Standard Seals of India. AESSEAL has also purchased US-based Mechanical Seal & Service ... [more]

Archbold Logistics has bought Direct Pallet Services, the Nuneaton-based transport firm with 52 employees and 30 vehicles.... [more]

Ultima Networks has purchased JCS for £300k, in order to expand its Cognito legal software division.... [more]

Brulines is going to buy Edensure, the Sunderland-based supplier of fuel monitoring technology with 11 employees, for £200k.... [more]

Charteris has bought SIG Consulting, the business solutions consultancy with offices in Hertfordshire and County Durham, in a deal worth £1.9m.... [more]

Keycom is to buy MCW Group, the supplier of broadband services to students, for £2.1m.... [more]

Heaven nightclub in central London has been bought by MAMA Group for £600k.... [more]

British Energy, the operator of eight nuclear power plants, is to be acquired by EDF of France for £12bn, and EDF hopes to build at least four new reactors.... [more]

Lehman Brothers has sold its equities and investment banking operations out of administration to Nomura, which might secure the future of 2,000 jobs in London.... [more]

The Glasgow-based chain of coffee shops, Beanscene, is going to be bought out of administration by Fifi & Ally. The future of 130 jobs will be secured.... [more]