Well, at least it saves me hiring a babysitter May 27, 2010 AMIDST the furore and the mud-slinging, at least one good thing has come out of Brendan Venter’s failed attempt to attend Sunday’s Guinness Premiership final – he won’t have to fork out for a babysitter! The Saracens director of rugby lost his appeal to overturn a 14-week coaching ban on Wednesday night after an RFU [...]
Injury-plagued Thompson looks to seize his opportunity against BaaBaas May 27, 2010 STEVE THOMPSON is hoping his summer move back to the Guinness Premiership will help him reclaim his former No2 England jersey. Thompson is set to complete his move from French club Brive to Leeds Carnegie, just four years after undergoing neck surgery and being told he risked paralysis by ever playing again. The 31-year-old starts [...]
Worcester appoint coach Hill and admit to Richards’ review role May 27, 2010 RELEGATED Worcester have appointed former England scrum-half Richard Hill as their new coach. Hill, 49, has experience in guiding Bristol to promotion and up to third in the Premiership, and has also coached at Gloucester and Harlequins. Chairman Cecil Duckworth said: “Richard has a proven track record of winning the Championship, taking a side into [...]
Top-flight royalty Leicester out to make final history May 27, 2010 LEICESTER will be looking to buck the trend tomorrow when the Guinness Premiership’s aristocrats collide with its upstarts in the final at Twickenham. In the seven years that the play-offs have determined who is crowned champions of England, only twice have the winners been the same team that finished first in the table. The Tigers, [...]
CITY VIEWS: WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN THE GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP FINAL? May 27, 2010 RICHARD BARBER | JP MORGAN “I would like Leicester to win because they have more England players, and I think they will. Saracens were romping ahead early in the season but to me that was because they didn’t have any Six Nations players, so all the other teams were below par, but then they caught [...]
WHY CAM MUST AXE THE CAP GAINS HIKE May 27, 2010 CITY A.M. today launches a campaign against plans to hike capital gains tax (CGT), calling on David Cameron to rethink proposals that would clobber private investors. Yesterday, senior City figures – including private equity guru Jon Moulton, serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson and Tullett Prebon boss Terry Smith – became the first to support our campaign. [...]
Cam: We will save economy May 27, 2010 DAVID Cameron will vow to champion enterprise when he sets out his vision for the economy in his first major speech as PM this afternoon. He will promise to turn around an economy that has become “hostile to enterprise”, with business investment growing at just a quarter of the pace of the 1990s. He will [...]
Coalition must listen to City on CGT May 27, 2010 IT is not often that a major City institution is willing to go on the record with its opposition to a key government policy – usually, the big firms hide behind off-the-record briefings or industry lobby groups. So kudos to Fidelity, the fund manager, for yesterday demolishing so eloquently the coalition government’s plan to hammer [...]
Obama blasts oil industry May 27, 2010 PRESIDENT Barack Obama has suspended offshore drilling plans in Alaska and Virginia at the same time laying into BP for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Speaking yesterday, Obama said that planned exploration off the shores of the two US states would be suspended, at the same time placing a moratorium on 33 wells currently [...]
Lehman sues JP Morgan in assets dispute May 27, 2010 LEHMAN Brothers Holdings has sued JP Morgan Chase, accusing the bank of illegally siphoning billions of dollars of assets in the days leading up to the record bankruptcy. The lawsuit filed in a Manhattan bankruptcy court accused JP Morgan of using its “unparalleled access” to inside details of Lehman’s distress to extract $8.6bn (£5.9bn) of [...]
