DCC has increased its oil distribution interests in the British market through the €13.3 million (£9.2m) acquisition of Carlton Fuels.

ISEQ listed business support services group DCC plc has acquired Carlton Fuels Limited, a north of England based oil distribution business, for an initial cash consideration of €13.3m, excluding debt.

Associated British Ports today unveiled a £44.5m (€65.7m) expansion of its Humber terminal in a bid to meet the UK’s hunger for imported coal.

The pace of corporate news is set to quicken this week with heavyweights including spirits group Diageo and Associated British Ports due to report. Results are also expected in the UK engineering, pubs and leisure sectors.

IAN HUNTLEY was brought to the attention of social workers four times in under a year for having sex with different underage girls.

Ian Huntley’s very ordinary world was turned upside down when his wife ran off with his younger brother and his mother set up home with a lesbian lover.

Investigators looking into an explosion which ripped through an oil refinery are not ruling out human error as a cause.

An explosion has ripped through the Conoco oil refinery on the Humber estuary, near Grimsby in Britain.

An explosion has ripped through the Conoco oil refinery on the Humber estuary.