How David Lenigas struck oil in Gatwick and became 'Britain’s JR'

Miner turned businessman, David Lenigas has people worried in England's southeast over his plans to drill for oil.

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Opinion in the City is divided over David Lenigas

Wisdom has it that London's junior market, Aim, is "a sad and lonely place, where corporate risk-taking and executive colour has all but been snuffed out", says the FT. David Lenigas the Australian miner-turned-entrepreneur who has unleashed the prospect of a "Gatwick gusher" on the British public gives the lie to that.

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