News in the Services sector - written by Chris St Cartmail

Countrywide is to begin the search for acquisitions after its investors strengthened its balance sheet with £37.5m following on from its recent debt restructu [more]

Carphone Warehouse is considering putting in a last minute bid for Tiscali's UK broadband business, after failed negotiations between Tiscali and B [more]

The government is going to put UKAEA Limited, the commercial division of the UK's Atomic Energy Authority, on the market as it has now reached the stage where it can operate independe [more]

Brittany Ferries has put in an offer to takeover SeaFrance from SNCF, the French state railway network. Brittany Ferries is looking to strengthen its position in order to compete with P&O, the market leader on the Dover-Calais line, and with Eurotun [more]

Moneybookers, the UK online payments provider, has been put up for sale after its owner Investcorp, the Bahrain-based investor, suffered its first loss for the first half of its financial year. [more]