Johnson leaves FA panel after homophobic comments row January 7, 2014 FORMER Birmingham defender Michael Johnson has withdrawn from the Football Association’s inclusion advisory board having come under fire for comments regarding homosexuality. The 40-year-old stated during a TV appearance in 2012 that he would not support the FA’s anti-homophobia campaign because “in the bible it states homosexuality is detestable unto the Lord”. Following Johnson’s addition [...]
Deng completes Cavaliers switch January 7, 2014 BASKETBALL: British NBA star Luol Deng has ended his nine-year association with Chicago Bulls and joined Cleveland Cavaliers. The 6ft 9in forward has averaged a career-best 19 points per game this season and represented Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Peel set to swap Sale for Bristol January 7, 2014 RUGBY UNION: Former Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel has agreed a two-year deal to join Bristol from Sale Sharks next season. The 32-year-old won 76 international caps.
Orient move into promotion spot January 7, 2014 FOOTBALL: Goals from Moses Odubajo and Scott Cuthbert earned Leyton Orient a 2-0 win at Shrewsbury to climb to second in League One.
Co-op execs face watchdog probe January 6, 2014 THE BOSSES who oversaw the Co-op Bank’s near collapse last summer are facing enforcement probes from the City’s regulators, the watchdogs said yesterday. Former senior staff at the bank could face fines or bans from the financial sector if they are found to have behaved wrongly in the run up to the lender’s capital crisis. [...]
Fears mount over China economy amid bank crackdown January 6, 2014 CHINA’S services sector is slowing down more quickly than expected, sparking new fears over the fate of the world’s second largest economy through 2014. Influential business surveys released yesterday showed growth slowing to its weakest pace in more than two years in December. HSBC and Markit’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI) came in at 50.9 in [...]
2014: The year you might email your dishwasher January 6, 2014 MAKING sure your house is warm when you get in from work could soon be as easy as texting your boiler – or at least that was the message coming out of a major tech industry show in the US yesterday. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night, Samsung revealed its vision for [...]
Love it or hate it: Nissan launches new London taxi January 6, 2014 NISSAN is hoping to rise through the ranks of London’s taxi market when it starts selling its own spin on the Hackney carriage this year. The car maker has redesigned its NV200 model to look more like the traditional city cab after feedback from the mayor’s office and Transport for London, which tightly regulates the [...]
Burst of optimism marks start of 2014 for UK firms January 6, 2014 BUSINESSES were increasingly confident of a broad-based UK recovery as 2013 came to a close, with both services and manufacturing firms beginning the year on a strong footing. Based on 8,000 responses to the latest survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), the group now forecasts that the economy grew by 0.9 per cent [...]
France’s failed socialist experiment is turning into a tragedy January 6, 2014 FRANCE is still France – and that, tragically, is why that great country and its wonderful people are doomed to decline further this year, and why even more successful French business folk, entrepreneurs and professionals will move to London over the next 12 months. While many other countries are recovering strongly, France is sinking again, [...]
