Dave Lee Travis cleared of string of indecent assaults.
Floods will hit 1,000 more homes as month’s rain to fall in two days.
Blow for PM as Ukip second in by-election.
Indonesia hit by volcanic eruption.
Bacon painting sells for £42m.
Belgium passes child euthanasia law.
Father stabs son then beats him to death with cricket bat in front of children.
Young mother decapitated by closing elevator doors in front of two-year-old son.
Amanda Pitt appointed as managing partner for new business and marketing at Havas Media.
CNN ad sales sharpens UK focus, as Liz Nunn joins from Viacom.
Andrew Bocking leaves his role as executive vice-president of BBM at BlackBerry.
The Exchange Lab appoints former Microsoft and BBC Worldwide senior executive Chris Dobson as chairman.
NATIONAL BANK OF ABU DHABI
The bank’s head of consumer and elite banking, George Beatty, has left the lender, a spokesman confirmed.
MALAYAN BANKING BHD
Malaysia’s biggest bank by assets named John Chong as head of its investment banking unit, Maybank. Chong had served as interim chief of the unit since Tengku Zafrul Aziz resigned last September.
THE CARLYLE GROUP
The global alternative asset manager said Jackie Roberts would join the firm as chief sustainability officer, a newly created position. Roberts joins Carlyle from the Environmental Defense Fund, where she was a senior director of the Idea Bank for the US Climate and Energy Program.
CAVENDISH CORPORATE FINANCE LLP
The UK-based M&A advisory firm has appointed its former chief operating officer Joe Stelzer as managing partner. He will lead the firm in a number of key areas and work closely with Cavendish co-founder Howard Leigh, the company said.
AXA ASSISTANCE
The insurance assistance firm named Eoin Lyons as its new chief operating officer for the UK division and Paul Moloney as its general manager for Ireland. Lyons was previously general manager of AXA Assistance Ireland, while Moloney served as head of account management.
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP
The investment management and investment services firm said it hired Michael Puleio as senior director for business development in BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s Manhattan office. He will report to managing director Katia Friend.
