Robshaw extends Harlequins contract August 22, 2013 ENGLAND captain Chris Robshaw will stay with Harlequins until 2016 after signing a contract extension with the Aviva Premiership club. The 27-year-old back-row has scored 16 tries in 170 appearances and helped Quins win the Amlin Challenge Cup in 2011 and the Premiership title last year. Robshaw said: “It’s a fantastic club with huge aspirations.”
Southgate lands England job August 22, 2013 FOOTBALL: Former Crystal Palace defender Gareth Southgate has been named England under-21s manager, signing a three-year deal. The 42-year-old won 57 full international caps and managed Middlesbrough between 2006 and 2009.
Britain end 24-year wait for title August 22, 2013 EQUESTRIAN: Britain’s Olympic showjumping champions – Ben Maher, Michael Whitaker, William Funnell and Scott Brash – won their first European team title for 24 years in Denmark yesterday. Britain, however, failed to retain their dressage title.
Jose out to spoil Moyes’ Old Trafford coronation August 22, 2013 BEN CLEMINSON AND BILL ESDAILE WITH THE BEST FOOTBALL AND RACING BETS THIS WEEKEND Jose Mourinho will get his closest look yet at striker Wayne Rooney, as Manchester United host Chelsea in a titanic clash at Old Trafford on Monday night. Rooney appeared off the bench in United’s 4-1 thrashing of Swansea but in not [...]
South African speedball Shea Shea set to fly home at York August 22, 2013 THIS afternoon’s Nunthorpe Stakes (3.40pm) is the pinnacle of the season for sprinters and forms the next round of the QIPCO British Champions Series. Sole Power produced one of the biggest shocks in the race’s history three years ago when landing the prize at an astonishing 100/1, but he has since gone on to prove [...]
Fed fails to give markets clarity August 21, 2013 MARKETS were in turmoil last night as the Federal Reserve’s latest minutes failed to give investors any clues to determine when the massive US bond buying programme will be trimmed. Some of the board were guarded on the prospect of tapering, calling for patience and additional data, but other members “suggested that it might soon [...]
Banks hit with further £1.5bn mis-selling fine August 21, 2013 BRITAIN’S biggest banks are braced for another compensation bill with regulators today expected to tell them to pay up to £1.5bn for consumers wrongly sold credit card protection from insurer CPP. The settlement will repay customers who bought insurance through the group from 2005 onwards, and includes those who wrongly thought they were buying identity [...]
Bloomberg told staff to spy on terminal users August 21, 2013 BLOOMBERG encouraged its journalists to monitor users of its terminals in order to find stories, according to a report released yesterday. The company’s journalists would regularly access users’ login history, personal contact details and could read support messages sent by terminal subscribers. Bloomberg reporters would also lurk in anonymous chat rooms set up for traders [...]
First July deficit since 2010 as spending creeps higher August 21, 2013 THE UK posted an unexpected deficit in July, the first for the month since 2010, highlighting the sluggish progress in reductions to spending. Records of the country’s recent public finances, released yesterday, show a relatively small deficit of £62m for last month. In the same month in 2012, the treasury ran a budget surplus of [...]
The City must not over-react to the shock death of an intern August 21, 2013 THERE are still lots of unanswered questions following the sudden and tragic death of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s 21-year-old intern Moritz Erhardt. Whether he was an epileptic – and whether he had declared that to the bank – is crucial to understanding what happened to cut an ambitious young man down in such cruel [...]
