Evans soars up world rankings February 10, 2014 TENNIS: British No2 Dan Evans climbed to a career-high 123rd in the world rankings yesterday. The 23-year-old reached the semi-finals of last week’s Zagreb Indoors event.
Flood alert Britain February 10, 2014 ■ Severe weather warnings across London and South East ■ Government admits that mistakes have been made HOMES AND businesses in London and the South East are preparing for more bad weather, as the Met Office yesterday issued severe warnings for the whole of this week. Heavy rain, gale-force winds and ice are all forecast [...]
Swiss voters back strict quotas on immigration from European Union countries February 10, 2014 SWITZERLAND has voted to impose immigration quotas by a margin of 50.4 per cent, casting doubt over the future of the nation’s involvement with the EU. Although the country is not a member of the EU, it has adopted a number of its policies, including the passport-free Schengen regime that allows citizens to cross European [...]
Bankers will not run new industry standards body February 10, 2014 THE NEW body being set up to improve standards in banking and restore faith in the industry will not be run by bankers, Sir Richard Lambert is expected to announce tomorrow. The former boss of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is thought to be keen to avoid claims the group is run by bankers [...]
Switzerland’s shock migration vote has dealt the EU a huge blow February 10, 2014 THERE are two kinds of Eurosceptics. There is the pro-market, classical liberal variety: believers in the Four Freedoms – the free movement of goods, services, capital and people – across the countries of the European Union, but who oppose everything else, including political integration, the undemocratic nature of the European construct, the EU’s myriad subsidies, [...]
Government in fresh attack on gas companies February 10, 2014 THE BIG six energy companies are making bigger profit margins on gas than previously thought, Edward Davey has said. The energy secretary has written to regulators to ask them to investigate the profit margins as part of their ongoing review. In a letter seen by the BBC, Davey has said that an analysis of the [...]
Think tank says coalition wastes £120bn per year February 10, 2014 THE TAXPAYER’s Alliance (TPA) has accused the government of squandering £120.4bn in one year as the pressure group mounts a “war on waste”. In its new Bumper Book of Government Waste, the TPA says £1 in every £6 of government spending was wasted in the 2012-13 year – the equivalent of £4,560 per family. The [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 10 February 2014 February 10, 2014 FINANCIAL TIMES Quantum nets Soros $5.5bn George Soros’s Quantum Endowment fund had its second-best year in dollar terms in 2013, adding $5.5bn to the billionaire’s fortune and putting the $28.6bn fund back at the top of the table for the most successful hedge funds of all time. The $5.5bn return was the best for Quantum [...]
Barclays faces probe for huge client data loss February 10, 2014 BARCLAYS could be forced to update its data protection and customer security systems after an information breach saw the details of thousands of customers put up for sale. The bank is analysing the details of customers to find out who was affected and how their details were stolen from Barclays Financial Planning Services, a unit [...]
Nat Rothschild’s yacht fight heads back to the courtroom February 10, 2014 NAT ROTHSCHILD and the Monaco boat company he hired to build a superyacht are in court this week to try and resolve a long-running dispute about contract payments. Rothschild’s investment vehicle Swallowfalls lined up a loan of around €38m (£31.6m) for Monaco Yachting & Technology to build a 240-foot vessel codenamed Project Nato, which the [...]
