Ports - Fat lady has not uttered yet !

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.... Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:31 am Post Subject: BAA agrees to Ferrovial takeover
Viva Espania ...... Running pretty much all our major airports soon.
BAA own
Heathrow; Gatwick; Stansted; Southampton; Glasgow; Edinburgh; Aberdeen.
Bristol International Airport is a Private Limited Company, 100% owned by a joint venture holding company, South West Airports Limited. South West Airports Limited (SWAL) is in turn owned by Macquarie Airports (MAp), a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Ltd, Australia's largest investment bank and Ferrovial Aeropuertos, a subsidiary of Ferrovial, one of Spain's foremost infrastructure companies...

Is there no end to the accquisitive nature of the Oz?

....AN Australian-led consortium is to gatecrash Goldman Sachs's agreed purchase of Associated British Ports (ABP) this week by posting a rival offer valuing the company at almost £2.7 billion.
The move by Britannia Ports, a team of international investors led by the Australian bank Macquarie, will trigger a frenetic auction for ABP....

Tone's thinking about Iraq ... What about any public monies invested (wrong word ) into this lot over the years?

Tie me Kangaroo down sport, watch the Brits as they grovel ....