The animated classic "Beauty and the Beast" tops the box office for this year in the US where Regal, the second biggest chain, is being taken over by Cineworld AP1 New car registrations have plunged again after a further collapse in the sale of diesel vehicles that is being widely blamed on the government. Sales are down more than 11 per cent in November, a decline for the eighth month running. 2 Ratesetter has blamed its slump to a £23 million loss for the year in large part on a £14 million write-off on Adpod Limited, an advertising business, which the lender ended up owning after using its own capital to prevent a huge default on its peer-to-peer loan book from hitting investors. 3 Mooky and Israel Greidinger, the Israeli brothers behind Cineworld, a British cinema operator, signalled their global ambitions by agreeing a $5.8 billion takeover of Regal Entertainment Group, America’s second biggest…

Source: The Times December 06, 2017 06:22 UTC