LONDON, Feb. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Achilles Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: ACHL) (the Company) today announced that it has formally notified The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) of its intention to voluntarily delist its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) from Nasdaq and its intent to deregister its ADSs from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act). As previously reported, the Company has…

Marine park operator Dolphin Cove Limited says it is business as usual, even as the company that owns World of Dolphins (Barbados) is set to go through corporate restructuring and insolvency procedures.

Dolphin Cove Jamaica features five dolphin habitats spread between Montego Bay, St James; and Ocho Ríos, and Puerto Seco and Moon Palace in St Ann.

In a market filing, Dolphin Cove reported that Controladora Dolphin SA de CV, also known as Dolphin Discovery (Mexico), “has initiated voluntary proceedings under Mexico’s concurso mercantil process, (which is) a corporate restructuring and insolvency procedure under Mexican law”. Controladora Dolphin owns 90 per cent of World of Dolphins Inc (Barbados), while the latter…

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Walleys Quarry landfill is located close to a large number of houses in the village of Silverdale in Staffordshire.

For a number of years, residents have complained about a foul stench emanating from the site, which eventually spawned the campaign group Stop the Stink.

Some have claimed it has affected their health, including Rebecca Currie, who said it had impacted her son Mathew.

“Mathew’s consultant has again reported that the pollution from Walleys Quarry is shortening Mathew’s life – it’s killing him,” she said.

She recently launched legal action against the Environment Agency (EA) for a second time over its handling of the site.

In the second article of our occasional series “Open Book”, a democratic platform we offer out-of-industry commentators, Grace Graham-Taylor looks at the contentious issue of gambling addiction.

In the summer of 2021, Luke Ashton, a husband and father-of-two from Leicester, England, took his own life, writes Grace Graham-Taylor.

Unbeknown to his family, in the preceding months Ashton had relapsed into a debilitating gambling addiction, a problem he had struggled with since 2018 but had largely managed to conquer — until the COVID 19 pandemic hit, and the lure of free-bet offers became impossible to resist.

Though far from an isolated case, Ashton’s death made history as the first in which a gambling firm was formally…