Rentokil Initial today said it planned to sell off part of its UK hygiene business as it braced itself for another tough year of trading.

Pest control-to-hygiene group Rentokil Initial today said it had no plans to break itself up as it revealed a 10% fall in half-year pre-tax profits to £180.4m (€268.4m).

The break-up of troubled Rentokil Initial is to be rejected in a review of the services group due to be unveiled next week, it was reported today.

The new boss of hygiene and security group Rentokil Initial today announced a root and branch review of the business after the company ousted its chairman and warned on profits.

The break-up of pest control-to-security group Rentokil Initial is to be examined by the troubled company’s new chairman, it was reported today.

BRIAN McGOWAN'S suggestion, (Irish Examiner, July 31) that killing 14 innocent people, including nine children, to assassinate the terrorist leader Shehadeh is a necessary "act of self-defence" on behalf of the "democratic and decent state of Israel".

Martin Gleeson's call for a boycott against Israel (Irish Examiner, July 29) is naive in the extreme.