Shock Queen’s loss for Murray June 12, 2014 BRITAIN’S Andy Murray suffered defeat yesterday in only his second match since hiring former grand slam winner Amelie Mauresmo as his coach. Murray lost 7-6 (12-10), 6-2 to Czech veteran Radek Stepanek in the third round of the Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club in west London. It brought to an end the Scot’s reign as [...]
England target World Cup final June 12, 2014 HOCKEY: England captain Barry Middleton insists Olympic revenge is not on the agenda in today’s World Cup semi-final against hosts Holland. Team GB were denied a bronze medal with a 9-2 defeat by the Dutch team in 2012, but Middleton said: “We are not going out for revenge, we just want to get to the [...]
Nadal loses first match on grass June 12, 2014 TENNIS: World No1 Rafael Nadal’s grass court season began with a surprise straight sets defeat yesterday to world No85 Dustin Brown. The French Open champion lost 6-4, 6-1 in less than an hour at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle.
Goals set to be off the menu in Manaus June 12, 2014 BEN CLEMINSON PREVIEWS ENGLAND’S OPENER WITH ITALY AND SPAIN VERSUS NETHERLANDS ENGLAND…………… ITALY……………….. Tomorrow 11.00pm THE ENGLAND football team has suffered under the weight of expectation from this small but very patriotic nation for the past few decades, so it’s actually quite refreshing that the normal World Cup fervour hasn’t reached fever pitch yet. Perhaps [...]
Yellow Fever: England to rattle Mario Balotelli’s cage June 12, 2014 ITALY stalwarts Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Pirlo will provide class and experience, while Daniele De Rossi, Claudio Marchisio and Marco Verratti offer balance and fight, as the country look to secure their fifth World Cup and erase the memories of the 4-0 defeat to Spain in the Euro 2012 final. If there are concerns over [...]
Uber app vs black taxis: Cab war heats up June 11, 2014 Taxi drivers bring central London streets to a standstill over Uber – yet smartphone app says it won the day Thousands of black cabs caused gridlock in London’s west end yesterday as taxi drivers protested over the smartphone app Uber and warned that they could bring more chaos to the streets of the capital with [...]
Record surge in hiring as British growth takes off June 11, 2014 JOBS were created at a record pace in the three months to April, sending unemployment tumbling again, official figures showed yesterday. An interest rate hike is increasingly likely after long term joblessness dived and full-time jobs overtook part-time work as the main driver of growth. But a few signs of sluggishness remain. Wage growth, for [...]
Britain’s economy has turned into a giant job-creating machine June 11, 2014 BRITAIN’S jobs market is continuing to defy gravity. The latest figures are stunningly good, with employment moving ever-closer to its all-time high as a share of the workforce and the number of jobs in the economy hitting another record. Yet there is a downside to this extraordinary, almost unbelievably positive story – once again, productivity [...]
Home-grown cars generate £25bn overseas June 11, 2014 BRITAIN’S car manufacturers have more than doubled the amount of money they make from exports in the past decade, taking overseas income up to £24.8bn last year. The average wholesale price of a British-made car has risen from £10,200 in 2004 to £20,640 and demand is surging around the globe. “With booming production volumes and [...]
UK house price upswing out of Bank’s hands June 11, 2014 BEN BROADBENT stressed the Bank of England’s limited ability to control house price inflation yesterday, as researchers warned that even buy-to let landlords were being priced out of London’s frothy property market. “It is not monetary policy or macroprudential policy to target asset prices… What really matters for financial stability is the amount and riskiness [...]
