There’s nothing much in either of these stories that hasn’t already appeared on this site, but the flurry of press reports is a possible indication that the mainstream media is being fed ‘for sale/to float’ stories by financial PRs acting on behalf of Halfords. This is speculative, but that’s the way the world operates…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/…/0,,2095-958539,00.html
http://www.commentwire.com/commwire_story.asp?commentwire_ID=5193