Something for the weekend November 6, 2014 WINTER BREW FEST Head up to Old Street for a pint or four at the Winter Brew Fest, where there’ll be live bands, hot food and, of course, plenty of locally-brewed beer to warm those cockles. Entry is £25 from winterbrewfest.co.uk or on the door, which also gets you a tasting glass and 12 beer [...]
Sport Comment: More vital for All Blacks to taste Twickenham glory than England November 6, 2014 NEW ZEALAND NEED TO WIN MORE THAN ENGLAND, WITH SOUTH AFRICA LIKELY TO BE VIEWED AS THEIR KEY SCALP From an All Blacks perspective, this is the last time they will play England before the World Cup and psychologically to win at Twickenham would be really important. In 12 months’ time New Zealand could potentially [...]
Sport Comment: Return of FA Cup offers hope to football’s have-nots November 6, 2014 ENGLISH football’s calendar hits a milestone this weekend with the FA Cup First Round proper – when the minnows of the Football League and non-league jointly dream of glory; giant-killing in the New Year and making a few bob along the way. It’s a big day for the have-nots of football. Just how big was [...]
Formidable All Blacks to continue impressive international record November 6, 2014 HARRY MADLEY PREVIEWS ENGLAND’S FIRST AUTUMN INTERNATIONAL AND BEN CLEMINSON LOOKS AT LIVERPOOL V CHELSEA WITH just over 10 months until the start of the 2015 World Cup Stuart Lancaster’s England side can make a bold statement to the rugby world as they attempt to overcome the power, flare and experience of New Zealand tomorrow [...]
Stalemate on the cards for misfiring pair at Anfield November 6, 2014 CHELSEA are four points clear at the top of the Premier League ahead of tomorrow’s trip to Anfield, but there have been recent signs that they are not as invincible as they were earlier in the season. Injuries to Diego Costa and Loic Remy have disrupted their attacking fluency and the 1-1 draw at Old [...]
Rugby spread betting with sporting index November 6, 2014 THE AUTUMN Internationals are made for a spread bet with predictions on everything from one team’s supremacy over another, to total points in the game, and even tryscorer shirt numbers. One of the simplest and most popular rugby spread bets is the supremacy market. Sporting Index will make a prediction on one team’s supremacy over [...]
John Lewis Xmas ad is the full monty… November 5, 2014 It’s the advertising moment of the year – retailer John Lewis launches its Christmas advertising campaign this morning, in anticipation of its first TV airing tomorrow night before Channel 4’s Goggle Box. The ad, by agency Adam & Eve DDB, revolves around a penguin called Monty and a little boy called Sam and is set [...]
Cheesegrater’s steel bolts come unstuck as skyscraper cordoned off November 5, 2014 British Land has revealed that two steel bolts, each a metre in length, have come unstuck from London’s Cheesegrater skyscraper, and part of the building has now been cordoned off to pedestrians. One part of one of the bolts fell to the ground at the side of the building but thankfully the area where it [...]
Obama dealt blow by Republican victory November 5, 2014 BARACK Obama was dealt a significant blow yesterday when the Republican Party won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, increasing their power in the final two years of his presidency. The Republicans also increased their grip on the House of Representatives and now control both chambers of Congress for the first time [...]
Time Warner detects a better quarter November 5, 2014 THREE months after it rebuffed an approach by Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox, Time Warner raised its earnings outlook yesterday as the media company’s third-quarter revenue increased a bigger-than-expected three per cent to $6.24bn. The company’s HBO subsidiary produced the highly successful True Detective series.
