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“The punk thing happened and all I saw was this skinny guy shouting. Suddenly it was all the rage and they were calling me rude names”: Bewildered and reclusive, Mike Oldfield just wanted to make double albums

He’d recorded Tubular Bells with substandard instruments but later Richard Branson personally delivered a world-class studio to his cottage. It still took Oldfield over 40 years to make sense of his original vision

Louder

Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon

The mess created by decades of economic mistakes will be hard to unscramble. But the airline industry is a good place to start

The Guardian - AU

Bonza customers out of pocket and out of patience over holiday chaos

Administrators are working out whether Bonza can survive.

Newcastle Herald

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Grounded: Bonza poised to join long list of failed Australian airlines

An aviation industry dominated by the Qantas-Virgin duopoly may have claimed another victim – but it’s far from the first to fall

The Guardian - AU

Bonza enters voluntary administration after abruptly cancelling all flights across Australia

Passengers were earlier left stranded as discussions took place on ‘viability of business’

The Guardian - AU

Campaign against Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money puts pressure on board

Society denies ignoring members, but says a vote is not possible

Evening Standard

British Airways stewardess ordered home after drunken row at £2,000-a-night Maldives hotel

British Airways is investigating after a stewardess was ordered home following a drunken altercation at a £2,000-a-night hotel in the Maldives.

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Two passenger planes clip wings at Heathrow

Footage on social media shows wing of Virgin Atlantic plane overlapping wing of BA aircraft

The Guardian - UK

Virgin and British Airways passenger planes crash at Heathrow Airport

Ghana-bound British Airways flight delayed several hours after collision on runway

Evening Standard

Qantas and Virgin Australia put on notice over offsets after landmark decision on greenwashing

Dutch court’s ruling that KLM misled customers is a ‘wakeup call’ on decarbonisation plans, climate advocacy group says

The Guardian - AU

Boeing files lawsuit against Virgin Galactic over development of new mothership aircraft

Boeing and Aurora Flight Sciences are suing Virgin Galactic for unpaid work and trade secrets related to a new mothership aircraft for Virgin Galactic’s next-generation space planes.

Space

“I gave my vintage Jazzmaster to a girl after a show in Liverpool. 30 years later she sent me back the guitar. It’s like it died and went to heaven and came back to me”: The miraculous return of US shoegaze pioneers Drop Nineteens

Having not played guitar for 20 years, Greg Ackell and the band are back with Hard Light, finding new ways of crafting sound without expanding the pedalboard

Guitar World

Nationwide members deserve a vote on Virgin deal – but won’t get one

With the £2.9bn acquisition having big sway over its future, owners should have a say, but democractic governance is blocked

The Guardian - UK

Nationwide agrees £2.9bn deal to take over Virgin Money

Richard Branson has already indicated he will back takeover that will require the agreement of the group’s shareholders

The Guardian - UK

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Phil Manzanera on being sampled by Kanye West and Jay-Z: "Who knew that I would earn more money from a short guitar riff that I wrote one evening on a sofa in front of the telly in 1978 than I ever earned in the entire 50 years as a member of Roxy Music?"

The guitarist had no say in his riff being used on Watch The Throne track No Church In The Wild but says he received a one-third share of the publishing and royalties revenue

The Guardian - UK

Nationwide faces mounting calls to give members say on Virgin Money takeover

Experts question if ‘bigger is better’ and whether members should be consulted on the £2.9bn deal

Evening Standard

Best cabin luggage, tried and tested: Top cabin bags to shop for your flight

Hand luggage only? We’ve got the best bags to pass pedantic rules with flying colours

The Guardian - UK

So much for the challenge from ‘challenger’ banks

The uncomfortable truth is that size remains an enormous advantage in retail banking

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Evening Standard

Nationwide buying Virgin Money is an awful deal

City Comment: Claims that this deal will boost mutuality are hollow

Evening Standard

Nationwide swoops on Virgin Money in controversial £2.9 billion deal

Deal lands £414m windfall to Richard Branson’s Virgin Group

The Guardian - AU

Who let the dogs on? Everything you need to know about Virgin Australia’s planned pets in cabins scheme

From confining animals to carriers to dealing with doggy business, how will the airline’s policy to let small cats and canines fly in plane cabins actually work?

The Guardian - UK

Virgin Media O2 clients hit with 8.8% price rises or crippling exit fees

Increase is biggest hike in percentage terms of any major broadband or mobile firm this year

Evening Standard

Graham Norton announces he is quitting Virgin Radio weekend shows

The Irish chat show host joined the station in 2021 following a decade on BBC Radio 2.

The Guardian - AU

Airlines cancelling flights at Sydney airport could lose takeoff and landing slots in crackdown

Federal government moves to force carriers to give reasons for cancellations amid accusations some done strategically in ‘slot hoarding’

The Guardian - AU

Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka steps down after nearly four years in top role

Hrdlicka’s abrupt departure comes as airline’s owners plan to push ahead with relisting on stock exchange

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