‘Obscene’ – HS2 on track to cost at least £102bn as minister slams ‘gold-plated folly’ Transport & Infrastructure HS2 is now poised to cost the taxpayer as much as £102bn and will not deliver its first service from Euston until at least 2040, according to the transport secretary who blasted the project as a “massively over-specced folly”. Heidi Alexander said the cost of the ill-fated train line was now on course to nearly […]
Inflation, not Andy Burnham, is the culprit behind high Gilt yields Opinion Gilt Yields have more to do with inflation than the future of the Labour Party, says Tomasz Wieladek The debate about the future of the Labour Party’s leadership has revived a familiar narrative: that high Gilt yields are the verdict of financial markets on prospective changes to the government’s fiscal plans. The implication is that […]
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Raging cricket ticket row as England fans to take over Newlands, South Africa Sport Business A raging ticketing row has broken out in South Africa over England’s Test tour this winter, with the tourists’ fans being blamed for bagging thousands of tickets. Tickets were due to go on sale this week for the festive fixture at Newlands Cricket Ground but locals reported that tickets for the first four days of […]
Savvy has Brilliant chance under Purton Sport RACEGOERS in Hong Kong will be praying the gods of fortune are on their side when they arrive at Sha Tin for an 11-race programme on Sunday. Not only are they faced with a host of head-scratching and competitive handicaps, but they have the added dilemma of what the weather will be like before the […]
Episode 86: Roger Teal on Dancing Gemini and Oxted, York Dante Festival and Lockinge Day at Newbury Sport
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