The City Diary

Peter Wilkinson, who said last week that he planned to take data services company InTechnology off AIM as a result of the junior market's "undervaluing' of the business, has other things on his mind back home on the North York moors. Freeserve creator Wilkinson ? technology entrepreneur, football fanatic and self-proclaimed tight-fisted Yorkshireman ? has bought his second pub, the Royal Oak in Gillamoor, close to his home in Sleightholmedale, near Kirkbymoorside. Wilkinson ? now worth an estimated £300m ? bought his first moorland pub, the Plough Inn in Fadmoor, reputedly after his underage daughter was refused service. The internet pioneer ? who is charging £8.95 for Cumberland sausage and mash at the Royal Oak ? clearly has the Midas touch.