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The former top boss at retail giant JD Sports has been handed a £5.5m exit deal.

Footasylum has been sold to a group in Germany for £37.5m after JD Sports was ordered to dispose of the brand by the UK's competition watchdog.

TikTok UK has teamed up with JD Sports to launch a three-part series of programmes celebrating rap music and culture, the first edition of which goes live later today, with parts two and three following on 1 and 8 Jun.Called ‘Oi TikTok’, each show will feature, and I quote, “interviews, performances from established and emerging artists, comedy shorts and lots more”. I don’t know about you, but it’s the “lots more” I’m looking forward to most.

direct to your inboxThe executive chairman of JD Sports has warned that 1,000 distribution jobs could be moved to Europe from Rochdale as a result of the crippling cost of Brexit.The company currently ships from its Rochdale distribution centre on the Kingsway Business Park but has seen big backlogs with parcels and a significant amount of red tape, which has made the process more costly.Peter Cowgill, the chain's executive chairman, told the BBC's Radio 4 World at One programme: "The amount of