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Bosses at Redx Pharma are working on a deal to take back control of the drug discovery and development company after the shock appointment of administrators last month (May).

Jason Baker and Miles Needham from FRP Advisory were appointed as administrators of Redx and subsidiary Redx Oncology by secured lender Liverpool City Council, which lent 2m to the business five years ago.

The AIM-listed company's chairman, Iain Ross, called the timing of the council's action "extremely unfortunate and quite baffling".

This morning Redx told the stock exchange that the joint administrators were working with its advisers on proposals to rescue Redx and return the company to the control of its directors.

In turn, this would lead to the restoration of trading in Redx's shares, which was suspended upon news of the administrators' appointment.

Redx added that discussions regarding the proposals were at "a relatively early stage" and that there was "no guarantee that these will be concluded successfully in the short term".

Redx, which is led by chief executive Dr Neil Murray, completed an initial public offering on AIM in March 2015 with a market capitalisation at admission of 55.2m. Since then, it has relocated to Alderley Park in Cheshire.

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In the end, I think the margin of victory were people who were determined not to allow the news media and Nancy Pelosi and Hollywood liberals to defeat Donald Trump in their district, Newt Gingrich said.

With the votes counted and Republican Karen Handel declared the winner in Tuesdays special election to fill the vacant seat in Georgias 6th Congressional District, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday that the media were right about the race all along: It was a referendum on Donald Trump.

Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff, keeping the district under GOP control after the most expensive House race in history. Democrats, eager to seize the seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, poured money into the race. In the run-up to election day, polls showed Ossoff and Handel in a dead heat just months after Price had won reelection by more than 23 percentage points.

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The race was characterized in some corners as an early bellwether of support for the president, who won the district by a single point over Democrat Hillary Clinton in November. Handels nearly 4-point win, along with other GOP victories in special elections across the country, proves that the president is more popular than many in the media think, Gingrich said.

So the news media had it right. This was a referendum on Trump. He won, Gingrich said. The problem for the news media is they can't come to grips with the fact that in five different specials, the Republicans have won, and that sort of says maybe Trump's doing a lot better in America than he is in the news media.

The glut of money from outside Georgia that funneled into Ossoffs campaign ultimately became a weapon against him, said Gingrich, who once represented the suburban Atlanta district that Handel won Tuesday. Ossoffs residency outside the district that he was running to represent counted as another strike against him, the former speaker said.

In the end, I think the margin of victory were people who were determined not to allow the news media and Nancy Pelosi and Hollywood liberals to defeat Donald Trump in their district, and I think that was probably the margin of victory, Gingrich said.

The former speaker joked that he would hate to see Democrats make a change in leadership away from Pelosi, their current minority leader in the House. We have all the ads done, Gingrich said. We know exactly how to run against a Nancy Pelosi-run party.

Pelosi's leadership has also faced challenges from inside her party. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who mounted an unsuccessful challenge last year to unseat Pelosi as minority leader, said Thursday on MSNBC that it will be hard for Democrats to win back the House with Pelosi at the party's helm.

Democrats have a "toxic" brand nationwide, Ryan said, allowing the GOP to tie individual candidates to Pelosi and other Democratic leaders. On Fox News, Gingrich suggested that Republicans would take exactly that strategy for as long as Democrats let them.

I hope they keep Nancy for 10 more years. I want her there for at least another decade, he said. We'd love to have the question be, in 2018, Nancy Pelosi versus Paul Ryan, and I hope that the Democrats keep her right where she is for a long, long time. At least a decade.

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A Cornish inventor has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring an innovative new pest control product to market.

Dr Toby Bateson, an emergency doctor at Royal Cornwall Hospital and founder of Hammer Technologies Ltd, has designed RatMat said to be the world's first humane electrified rodent repellent flooring.

He is seeking 65,000 through the Kickstarter platform to manufacture the first order for the product, following six years of design work and two years of product testing.

Using similar principles to an electric fence the RatMat device is made up of inter-lockable tiles with a conductive steel surface that lie flat on the ground.

Dr Bateson said: "I have spent six years researching and developing the RatMat to provide classic and valuable car owners with a cost-effective and long-term solution to costly and inconvenient damage caused by rats and mice.

"I have a prototype and evidence that it works, but now I need help to raise the initial funds to help make this long-term, humane pest control a reality."

Dr Bateson previously achieved a Guinness World Record in 2016 for the world's smallest vacuum cleaner, at 5.7 cm in length, and also successfully brought ZenPlugs Moulded Ear Plug Kit to market in 2009.

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The George Zimmerman verdict will be examined in a new Oxygen series called The Jury Speaks.

The four-night program focuses on headline-making verdicts, starts with the Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson cases, and concludes with Robert Durst. The jurors appear on camera and discuss the process of reaching the verdict.

The Zimmerman episode will premiere at 9 p.m. July 24. In 2013, a six-member jury found the Neighborhood Watch volunteer not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager, in Sanford.

Oxygen provided this preview and explained which jurors are taking part: Hear from Madelin Rivera, Amy Tronolone, Christine Barry, Lauren Germain and David Ramirez as they justify the hardest decision of their lives, and recount the unforgiving criticism they received in the wake of their verdict that divided a nation.

First up: The Jury Speaks: Michael Jackson at 9 p.m. July 22. Jurors explain why they found the singer not guilty of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor. The Oxygen preview: But now, after the emergence of new accusers and hard truths about Jacksons troubled childhood and tragic death, do they stand by their decision today?

The Jury Speaks: O.J. Simpson debuts at 9 p.m. July 23. Jurors discuss how 10 months of sequestration, isolation and stress affected the verdict. The former football star was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The Jury Speaks: Robert Durst debuts at 9 p.m. July 25. In 2003, the Manhattan real estate scion was found not guilty of murder. Jurors react to Dursts being caught on tape, in 2015, saying, I killed them all. The jurors explain how they would vote now with new information.

A fifth episode, The Jury Speaks: Robert Blake will be available on VOD starting July 23. Four jurors discuss finding the actor not guilty of the first-degree murder of his wife.

The series will allow viewers to hear straight from the people whose decisions ignited controversy and sparked a heated debate at the water coolers and in homes across America, said Rod Aissa, executive vice president for original programming and development at Oxygen Media.

The Jury Speaks is produced by Glass Entertainment Group.

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Miami poet Aja Monet makes us cry and wants to help others do the same Miami Herald The death of Trayvon Martin was the impetus for Selah's formation of the Dream Defenders, an activist group, and they hosted a month-long sit-in at the office of Governor Rick Scott to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Martin's murderer. But ...

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