Hazel ponders heptathlon comeback January 14, 2014 ATHLETICS: Heptathlete Louise Hazel is pondering a defence of her Commonwealth title just four months after retiring, after British rival Jessica Ennis-Hill withdrew from this year’s Games because she is pregnant.
St Nicholas Abbey dies after illness January 14, 2014 HORSE RACING: Three-time Coronation Cup winner St Nicholas Abbey died yesterday after suffering a colic, his owners confirmed. A statement from Coolmore read: “Surgery revealed a strangulating colon torsion that was unviable and he had to be euthanized on humane grounds.”
Townsend close to Spurs return January 14, 2014 FOOTBALL: Tottenham winger Andros Townsend, who has missed the last six matches with a hamstring injury, scored during a 45-minute cameo appearance as Spurs beat Newcastle 4-1 in an Under-21s Premier League match yesterday.
Deal Frenzy: $100bn-worth of takeovers in one day January 13, 2014 Bumper start to 2014 as $100bn-worth of takeovers are announced in one day HALF A dozen deals totalling more than $100bn (£61bn) were revealed yesterday, kicking off 2014 with some of the biggest corporate offers in years. The deals – including the third largest bid for a global company since 2009 – spanned several industries [...]
US banks lead the way on merger Monday January 13, 2014 THERE should be little surprise in the City that US banks featured so dominantly as advisers to yesterday’s spate of takeover deals. Over the past 10 years, the share of global M&A fees taken by European-based banks such as Credit Suisse, UBS, and Deutsche, has declined from 24.47 per cent to 18.66 per cent, according [...]
Death of the text message as Brits become app happy January 13, 2014 CHANGING consumer habits mean than while more than 1.2bn messages are being sent each day on UK mobile phones, in 2014 just 32 per cent of these will be sent by traditional text messages, also known as SMS. Despite this sea change in consumer behaviour, boosting the use of mobile apps like WhatsApp and Viber, [...]
Britain’s public sector needs to become more like Switzerland’s January 13, 2014 BRITAIN faces a major problem. We need to shrink our bloated, inefficient state while simultaneously improving our healthcare, pensions, infrastructure and the rest. There is, fortunately, a solution but it will require a degree of political courage currently absent from the UK political scene. The chancellor’s solution – he hopes to cut public spending by [...]
Conservative MP tells government to stay out of business policy January 13, 2014 CONSERVATIVE MP David Davis has said the government should stay out of making business policy as it overcomplicates the issues. Commenting on the launch of a report from Business for Britain, which proposes an opt-out scheme for small firms on EU regulation, the former Foreign Office minister said he would vote to leave the EU [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 14 January 2014 January 13, 2014 FINANCIAL TIMES McKesson bid for Celesio fails McKesson admitted defeat in its $8.6bn bid for Celesio, the German-based medicines distribution group, after a battle with Elliott Associates , the activist hedge fund, over the deal. The US drugs wholesaler said it had failed to reach the 75 per cent acceptance threshold among Celesio shareholders required [...]
Christmas fails to avert footfall slump for retail January 13, 2014 THE RECENT upturn for the British economy did not extend to high streets last year, as the full extent of the drop in footfall to bricks-and-mortar retailers during 2013 is revealed. The full figures for 2013 footfall released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard show that Christmas sales failed to spur growth for [...]
