Getting Intu debt

SHOPPING centre owner Intu’s stock-market value slumped to less than £70million yesterday, a day after it scrapped an emergency £1.5billion cash call.

Shares in the owner of Manchester’s Trafford Centre and Lakeside in Essex tumbled 20 per cent. While its shopping centre empire is worth £6.6billion, it’s lumbered with £4.5billion in debt.

NEW car sales fell 2.9 per cent to 79,594 last month, the Society of Motor Manufacturers revealed. The trade body is urging Chancellor Rishi Sunak to use the Budget to encourage take-up of electric cars. down 110.1 at 6705.43

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