Brits to miss Seve Trophy September 25, 2013 SIX of Britain’s best golfers will be absent from Sam Torrance’s squad for next month’s Seve Trophy, but the captain is still content with the balance of his team. Major winners Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell have opted not to compete, while Luke Donald, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood have also made themselves [...]
World Championships set for London September 25, 2013 CYCLING: The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park velodrome is to stage the five-day Track World Championships in February 2016. Team GB won nine medals in the venue at London 2012 and will stage the final leg of the Olympic qualification process for the next Games in Rio. The Park is also set to hold Rugby World [...]
QPR move for striker Chevanton September 25, 2013 FOOTBALL: Championship pacesetters QPR have strengthened their forward line with the signing of Uruguayan free agent Javier Chevanton on a three-month contract. Harry Redknapp’s side are unbeaten in eight league matches but have scored just eight goals. Chevanton, 33, has scored seven goals in 22 games for his country and said: “I have scored goals [...]
Essex blow promotion chance September 25, 2013 CRICKET: Northamptonshire wrapped up promotion to Division One of the County Championship halfway through their four-day match with Worcestershire yesterday after rivals Essex failed to take maximum bonus points at Hampshire. Essex were bowled out for 207 in reply to Hampshire’s first innings score of 456 and are 44-0 having been asked to follow on.
Hick handed key Australia role September 25, 2013 CRICKET: Australia have turned to former England batsman Graeme Hick in an attempt to cure their cricketing malaise just weeks before the Ashes. The 47-year-old has been appointed high performance coach at Cricket Australia’s centre of excellence and is tasked with improving the standard of young players Down Under.
Labour declares war on business September 24, 2013 Miliband hits energy firms with plot for £4.5bn price freeze British Gas owner Centrica threatens to quit UK over plan Policies on tax, energy and construction slammed ED MILIBAND yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on swathes of British business as he returned his party to its left-wing roots by unveiling a range of punitive policies [...]
Centrica labels Labour plan as a recipe for ruin September 24, 2013 BRITAIN’S big six energy companies yesterday lambasted Labour leader Ed Miliband’s pledge to freeze energy bills until 2017, saying his planned reforms could financially ruin firms and discourage infrastructure investment. Sir Roger Carr, chairman of British Gas owner Centrica, said Labour’s plan to implement price controls could leave companies in a vulnerable position. “When costs [...]
Miliband’s lurch to left is a recipe for disaster September 24, 2013 WE NOW know what Labour’s strategy to win the next election will be: shift to the left, bash business, stoke envy and jealousy, attack the City and come up with a raft of populist policies. It might even work. New Labour is well and truly over, an experiment now deemed an obsolete, almost shameful failure [...]
Business groups tear into Labour plan to scrap corporation tax cut September 24, 2013 BUSINESS groups lined up to pan labour leader Ed Miliband’s promise to reverse a planned corporation tax cut yesterday, in broad agreement that recent reductions had been a positive development. The treasury has reduced corporation tax from 28 per cent to 23 per cent so far in government, with plans to reduce it further to [...]
Developers deny landbanking as Miliband vows to fine building firms sitting on valuable plots September 24, 2013 THE CONSTRUCTION industry yesterday rejected Ed Miliband’s suggestion that Britain's housing supply issues are caused by developers hoarding land, amid criticism of his willingness to confiscate land if firms that do not get building. “We will say to private developers you can’t just sit on land and refuse to build,” the Labour leader told his [...]
