Pip Hare bids to become first woman to finish Vendée Globe twice

PA Media Pip Hare will sail for a second time in the Vendee Globe race around the world A sailor is aiming to be the first woman to finish a 24,300 mile (45,000km) race around the world for a second time. Pip Hare, 50, was born in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire and grew up in Suffolk – where she learned to sail on the River Deben. She set off in her

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Planet Fitness bids for bankrupt Blink Fitness

A Blink Fitness location in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Planet Fitness wants to acquire bankrupt budget fitness chain Blink Holdings, according to court filings viewed by CNBC. Planet Fitness previously lost out in a bankruptcy auction against U.K.-based, privately held fitness chain PureGym. Now the U.S. chain, with a public market valuation of roughly $6.8 billion, is making another attempt. Equinox Group-owned

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