DIRECTOR DEALS

THE former boss of Stobart Group, Andrew Tinkler, has sold shares worth £5.6m in the firm that ousted him. Tinkler, 55, will also lose more than £500,000 from a stake he only just bought in Flybe. He spent around £968,000 on 31.8m shares in the struggling airline last week even though Stobart, Virgin Airlines and Cyrus Capital are about to buy Flybe. Tinkler declined to comment.