Sarries chief up for top award April 28, 2014 SARACENS’ Mark McCall has been placed on a three-man shortlist for the Premiership rugby director of the season award. McCall’s men are top of the Aviva Premiership and reached the Heineken Cup final at the weekend. Leicester’s Richard Cockerill and Sale chief Steve Diamond are also nominated. The winner will be announced on 15 May.
Murphy lands O’Sullivan tie April 28, 2014 WORLD snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan continues the defence of his title against English compatriot Shaun Murphy in today’s best of 25 frames quarter-final. Murphy beat Marco Fu 13-8 last night at the Crucible. World No1 Neil Robertson, Welshman Dominic Dale and England’s Judd Trump also booked their places in the last-eight with wins yesterday.
Tandy, 32, found dead in Australia April 28, 2014 RUGBY LEAGUE: Former Ireland forward Ryan Tandy was yesterday found dead following a suspected drug overdose. The 32-year-old was given a life-ban from the Australian National Rugby League in 2010 after being convicted of match fixing.
Banana-throwing fan identified April 28, 2014 FOOTBALL: Villareal yesterday handed a life-ban to the spectator who threw a banana at Barcelona defender Dani Alves in Sunday’s match. Alves responded to the racist taunt by peeling the banana and eating it.
Advantage Fulham in cup final April 28, 2014 FOOTBALL: Fulham beat west London rivals Chelsea 3-2 in the FA Youth Cup final first leg at Craven Cottage last night.
City squeezed by stronger pound April 28, 2014 BRITISH investors will lose out on billions of pounds due to soaring sterling, raising fears the currency will undermine the competitiveness of City-based multinationals and hammer shareholders. Scores of UK blue chip companies who report their profits in dollars are set to deliver smaller sterling payouts to investors this year after the pound climbed to [...]
Tube strike still on as last-ditch talks continue April 28, 2014 LONDON Underground staff will start a 48-hour strike tonight unless last-ditch talks between Transport for London and the RMT union produce a truce. TfL, which will meet with RMT officials for conciliation talks today, last night urged the union to call off the “pointless strike”. This week’s walkout, which comes after two months of negotiations [...]
London house price surge to slow after frenzied year April 28, 2014 LONDON house prices could rise more moderately in the months ahead after a manic year of double digit growth, new evidence today suggests. The latest report from Hometrack shows that the amount of time that the average London house spends on the market has risen from 2.7 to 3.4 weeks between March and April. The [...]
Why MPs need to vote against the expensive folly that is HS2 April 28, 2014 TRAIN and tube lines are vital for London. Most people commute by rail, and projects like Crossrail or the Northern Line extension will do a huge amount of good. We need even more of them – Crossrail II sounds sensible – and to make sure that they are financed privately to minimise the burden on [...]
Ex-Morrisons director calls for overhaul of board April 28, 2014 ONE OF Morrisons’ former longstanding directors has hit out at the management of Britain’s fourth largest supermarket and called for its chairman to resign. Roger Owen, Morrisons’ property director for 22 years until his retirement in 2009, has accused the retailer of poor governance, criticising the structure of the board for having just two executive [...]
