O’Sullivan unhurt in car crash after world final defeat May 6, 2014 BEATEN world snooker finalist Ronnie O’Sullivan escaped unhurt from a car crash just hours after losing at the Crucible to new world No1 Mark Selby. O’Sullivan, travelling from Sheffield to his Chigwell home with six-year-old son Ronnie Jnr, is said to have spun into the central reservation on the M1 near Leicester at approximately 1.30am [...]
Premier League: Giggs excited by United’s young guns May 6, 2014 MANCHESTER UNITED 3 HULL CITY 1 MANCHESTER United player-boss Ryan Giggs believes the future is bright at Old Trafford after 18-year-old striker James Wilson marked his debut with two goals to keep his side’s faint hopes of qualifying for the Europa League alive. Wilson, who has scored 19 times for United’s Under-21 side this season, [...]
Broad skips one-day series to maximise Test match chances May 6, 2014 ENGLAND fast bowler Stuart Broad has confirmed he will miss the forthcoming one-day international series with Sri Lanka due to a recurrence of a long-standing knee problem, but hopes to be fit for next month’s Test matches. The 27-year-old was forced to miss two Twenty20 matches against West Indies in March due to patellar tendonitis [...]
Seats on sale for World Cup May 6, 2014 REGISTRATION has opened ahead of a six-week sale window for 500,000 tickets to Rugby World Cup matches for those affiliated to English clubs at all levels. Organisers of the 2015 showpiece confirmed tickets made available through the Rugby Community Ticket Programme will be on sale from 16 May and that a general sale for seats [...]
Kaneria loses life ban appeal May 6, 2014 CRICKET: Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has lost his appeal in the UK Commercial Court against a life ban for his role in ex-Essex team-mate Merv Westfield’s spot-fixing case. The England and Wales Cricket Board has urged Kaneria to admit his guilt.
Blackstock admits rule breach May 6, 2014 FOOTBALL: Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been hit with a £60,000 fine and suspended three-month ban after admitting multiple breaches of Football Association rules governing betting. Blackstock is currently sidelined by a knee injury.
Labour: We need to grill pharma chiefs May 6, 2014 THE LABOUR party is demanding that the bosses of Pfizer and Astrazeneca are called in front of a Westminster select committee and questioned over the proposed £63bn pharmaceuticals mega-merger. A political row has escalated around Pfizer’s bids, with opposition leader Ed Miliband proposing an additional public interest test to determine if this deal, and future [...]
Markit chooses New York for its $5bn stock market listing May 6, 2014 FINANCIAL data provider Markit yesterday unveiled plans for a US stock market listing that would value the firm at $5bn (£3bn), confirming that it will spurn the London Stock Exchange in favour of the United States. Markit, which was founded by former bond trader Lance Uggla from his garden shed in St Albans in 2003, [...]
Employment upswing set to continue until election May 6, 2014 THE SURGE in UK employment is set to continue, with nearly half a million more people expected to enter the workforce in the next 12 months according to a bullish forecast released this morning. Research by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and Grant Thornton suggests that more than 450,000 new [...]
Markets aren’t perfect – but are far better than the alternative May 6, 2014 MOST economists have a limited shelf life. I suspect that Thomas Piketty, the fashionable French socialist whose book on wealth and inequality is topping the charts, will ultimately fall into that category. Gary Becker, a brilliant US Nobel Prize winner in economics who died on Saturday, is the exact opposite: he will continue to influence [...]
