West Brom boss Alan Pardew reinstates Jonny Evans as captain ahead of Premier League relegation six-pointer with Huddersfield February 22, 2018 West Brom manager Alan Pardew has reinstated Jonny Evans as captain despite him being disciplined for breaking a curfew during a club trip to Barcelona this month. Evans was among four players accused of stealing a taxi on a night out in the Catalan city and was stripped of the armband for last weekend’s FA [...]
Making his mark: HSBC chairman plans boardroom cull February 22, 2018 HSBC Holdings’s new chairman is planning a dramatic boardroom cull, with one third of directors slated to leave. Three non-executive directors will not stand for re-election at the firm’s next annual general meeting, Sky News has reported. These include Deutsche Boerse chairman Joachim Faber, who joined HSBC’s board in 2012. This will streamline the board [...]
Stobart Group confirms interest in Flybe (FLYB) deal as shares in the airline rise 36 per cent February 22, 2018 The owner of London Southend Airport confirmed today it was considering a number of options in a potential deal with regional airline Flybe, including a takeover approach. The firm said today a number of possible structures have been considered, including “a non-controlling interest in a vehicle to acquire 100 per cent of Flybe” after shares [...]
EFL clubs bring forward summer transfer deadline to mirror Premier League February 22, 2018 English Football League (EFL) clubs have followed their Premier League counterparts and voted to bring forward their summer transfer deadline to early September. The 72 clubs in the second, third and fourth tiers have agreed to close this summer’s transfer window at 5pm on Thursday 9 August – the same time as teams in the [...]
Here’s how much Snap Inc (SNAP) boss Evan Spiegel made last year in salary, stock, bonuses and other compensation February 22, 2018 The founder and chief executive of Snap made $638m last year when the messaging app went public. Evan Spiegel was awarded $636.6m in stock as a result of its high profile IPO. Read more: Here’s how much Jeremy Corbyn earned last year That gave a major boost to his $98,000 salary which was less than [...]
Barclays’s gender pay gap sees women earning 43.5 per cent less than men February 22, 2018 Barclays has revealed that women on average earn nearly half of what men do at the bank’s international division, in figures published today. The bank said its median gender pay gap, reflecting the difference between the midpoints in the ranges of hourly pay of men and women, was 43.5 per cent. Its mean gender pay [...]
Manchester United’s new YouTube channel highlights platform’s influence on football February 22, 2018 Such was the hype surrounding big tech’s supposed interest in acquiring live Premier League broadcast rights that YouTube’s name was inevitably thrown into the mix alongside Sky and BT as a potential bidder in the current auction. Yet Google’s online video behemoth was never interested. Why would they be? As demonstrated by Manchester United’s migration [...]
Life on Mars? Cornwall’s Goonhilly Earth Station gets £8m funding to help find out February 22, 2018 Is there life on Mars? A communications station in Cornwall has been given millions of pounds in funding to help find out. Goonhilly satellite Earth Station, famous for beaming the images of the moon landing across Britain, has landed £8.4m to upgrade its facilities so that it can support contact between earth and missions to [...]
Labour still mulling ways to force a second referendum February 22, 2018 Labour MPs are still plotting to defeat the government’s bill on a final Brexit deal in the hope it could force a second referendum. The party had proposed plans to defeat the government over its EU Withdrawal Bill, with shadow Brexit minister Keir Starmer saying last April that Labour would not walk away from the [...]
The most famous houses in Jamaica and how to visit them February 22, 2018 When the plane comes into land in Montego Bay, the view isn’t quite the Caribbean I imagined during all those hours flying over the Atlantic. A line of mid-rise holiday resorts, uniform in their whiteness, bear down on the sea like a single gleaming fortress. At the end of the runway at Sangster International Airport [...]