Hamilton holds off Rosberg in Mercedes duel April 6, 2014 BRITAIN’S Lewis Hamilton believes he lacked the pace of team-mate Nico Rosberg at the Bahrain Grand Prix over the weekend, despite emerging victorious from yesterday’s thrilling duel between the Mercedes drivers. Rosberg started at the front of the grid after qualifying fastest, yet Hamilton gained the lead on the first corner and defiantly resisted a [...]
Adebayor set for Spurs return April 6, 2014 FOOTBALL: Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor is set to replace injured Roberto Soldado in tonight’s home match with Sunderland. Spurs boss Tim Sherwood has vowed to return to the dugout after fans recently voiced their displeasure at his presence in the directors’ box instead.
Jones scores stunning play-off win April 6, 2014 GOLF: Australia’s Matt Jones chipped in from 42 yards to win a play-off with Matt Kuchar in the Shell Houston Open and book his place in this week’s Masters. Jones carded a final round 66 to tie with Kuchar, then sealed his maiden PGA Tour win on the first extra hole.
Five for Anderson in curtain raiser April 6, 2014 CRICKET: England seamer James Anderson took 5-54 for Lancashire against Nottinghamshire on the first day of the new County Championship season. Notts were left on 270-9. However, England team-mate Michael Carberry was out for a duck as Hampshire struggled to 37-3 against Worcestershire.
Stimpson sets tone with triumph April 6, 2014 TRIATHLON: Britain’s Jodie Stimpson stormed to victory in the opening round of the World Series in New Zealand. The 25-year-old finished 25 seconds clear of Germany’s Anne Haug. In the men’s event, Olympic bronze medallist Jonny Brownlee was second to Javier Gomez.
He’s back: Star stockpicker Neil Woodford returns to City in spectacular style April 3, 2014 THE MOST celebrated stock market guru in Britain made a bold step back into the fray yesterday after clinching a deal to manage more than £3.5bn of cash from one of the country’s biggest wealth managers. Money manager Neil Woodford, whose investment prowess would have turned £1,000 of cash in 1990 into £23,265 today, has [...]
Tesco finance chief Laurie McIlwee poised to step down April 3, 2014 TESCO’S long-serving finance chief Laurie McIlwee is expected to step down as soon as next week, amid mounting pressure on Britain’s biggest supermarket chain to stem falling sales in UK and in Europe. Concerns over McIlwee’s position at the company emerged in October after Tesco unveiled a 70 per cent slump in European trading profits, [...]
Just Eat is off to sizzling start on the market April 3, 2014 SHARES in Just Eat, the online food takeaway group, yesterday finished their first day of trading 23p above an already high issue price, to value a group with underlying earnings of £14m at an astonishing £1.6bn. When the group first started discussing the possibility of floating earlier this year, the assumption was it would fetch [...]
Osborne mauls regulator over insurance mistake April 3, 2014 CHANCELLOR George Osborne slammed last week’s fumbled announcement of a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into the insurance sector as an “egregious error” yesterday, speaking in front of a panel of MPs. During a quizzing from the MPs on the Treasury Select Committee, Osborne said that he was also “profoundly concerned” about the incident. Last [...]
UK’s debt burden is falling – but the crisis is merely postponed April 3, 2014 BRITAIN’S debt burden is falling. Yes, you’ve read that right: the UK is finally deleveraging. But there is a catch: debt hasn’t fallen enough even though we are already nearing the end of the deleveraging cycle. Over the next few years, we are likely to go on another borrowing binge. The end result could be [...]
