Ollie Phillips: Mike Ford needs to galvanise Leicester to move them away from Premiership relegation April 4, 2019 There are five games left in the Premiership season and it’s crunch time at the bottom where four teams are battling it out to avoid the dreaded drop. Of the four it’s Leicester Tigers who are most unused to their standing, having slumped to 10th place and five points above the drop through a run [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Rathvinden looks the one to tame the Tiger April 4, 2019 WHO IS the most likely winner of tomorrow’s Randox Health Grand National (5.15pm)? The answer is without doubt TIGER ROLL. The question is whether you are prepared to take 7/2 about a horse in a 40- runner race with 30 monster fences. Plenty will be put off by those skinny odds, but the reality is [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Politiologue and Brio Conti can make it a Magic day for Nicholls April 4, 2019 THERE is a real sense of déjà vu when it comes to the JLT Chase (3.25pm) with the first two home from last year's renewal back for another crack. The Paul Nicholls-trained POLITOLOGUE bounced back from defeat behind Altior at Cheltenham to outstay Min and land this Grade One prize. Plenty of water has passed [...]
For safety’s sake, we need to rethink our address system April 4, 2019 Back when I worked in the music events industry, a huge part of my time was spent trying to get bands and equipment to the right place, on time. It was far more difficult than I’d ever imagined, and it was painfully clear to me that street addressing is totally inadequate for directing people from [...]
Judges and social media – Your Honour, should you be using Twitter in court? April 4, 2019 A British judge recently resorted to Twitter to appeal directly to one of the parties involved in a case over which he was presiding. Ellie Yarrow-Sanders was on the run with her toddler son, Olly Sheridan, for over six months. Mr Justice Williams, the High Court judge in the case between Yarrow-Sanders and her ex-partner, [...]
The burden of business rates falls unfairly on the West End April 4, 2019 This week, UK retailers received one of their biggest tax bills of the year. The consequences of the 2017 revaluation of business rates will again be felt, with a further hike of nearly 50 per cent for some companies. Retailers in London’s West End and Mayfair will once again be hardest hit, paying the lion’s [...]
Debate: Should investors panic about a US recession after the Treasury bond yield curve inverted? April 4, 2019 Should investors panic about a US recession after the Treasury bond yield curve inverted? Yes, says Michael Horan, head of trading at Pershing EMEA. The inversion has been on the cards since December last year. The yield curve represents real investors, putting real money to work, and at the moment, they are willing to accept [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Big fan of George’s Du Seuil in hot four-year-old hurdle April 3, 2019 WITH Band Of Outlaws and Pentland Hills both lining up in today’s Grade One Doom Bar Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle (2.20pm), this race appears to be a straight match-up between the two. The bookies are struggling to split this year’s Fred Winter and Triumph Hurdle winners at around 6/4, and if they both reproduce their [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: La Bague Au Roi can put her Manifesto rivals to the sword April 3, 2019 IT REALLY was such a brave decision to bypass this year’s Cheltenham Festival with LA BAGUE AU ROI and her connections deserve to be rewarded in this afternoon’s Devenish Manifesto Novices’ Chase (1.45pm). Warren Greatrex’s eight-year-old mare has arguably been the star of the novice chasing division so far this campaign, rattling off four straight [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: All I’m asking is for a little Respect in Betway Bowl April 3, 2019 ASK ANYBODY on the street to name one horse race and you can be pretty sure the vast majority will say the Grand National. There is no race quite like it, but Aintree have done a great job to make the rest of the Randox Health Grand National Festival so popular. Fun is the name [...]