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    Brand Beckham pays out $124mn in dividends

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    A laptop displays a map of candidate city locations for the relocation of the European Banking Authority (EBA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) in this arranged photograph in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. The EBA gets a new home on Monday, as Brexit forces the regulator and its 180 employees to abandon their high-rise digs in London’s Canary Wharf financial district and relocate to the continent. Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 4 September, 2017
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  • Monday, 13 February, 2017
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    HELSTON, ENGLAND - MAY 18:  David Beckham holds the Olympic Flame as it arrives at RNAS Culdrose near Helston on May 18, 2012 in Cornwall, England. The Olympic Flame arrived in the UK after it was handed over at a ceremony yesterday in Athens. A British delegation including David Beckham, flew back with the flame from Greece where they attended a ceremony welcoming the flame, before it is taken on a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles.  (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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