‘Bond market tantrum risks’: Gilt traders brace for Labour leftward pivot as Starmer future uncertain
Comeback on the cards for Rocket Ronnie February 25, 2013 REIGNING world snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan is expected to outline plans for his long-term future this morning, sparking speculation he is set for a return to the table after a six-month absence. The 37-year-old former world No1 has not played competitively since September and revealed his intention to miss the remainder of the 2012-13 season [...]
West Ham want Olympic Moore statue February 25, 2013 WEST Ham are exploring the possibility of erecting a statue of World Cup-winning former captain Bobby Moore at the Olympic Stadium. The Hammers are currently in final negotiations with the London Legacy Development Corporation over leasing the Stratford stadium, with a view to moving in 2016. Club chiefs are engaged with supporters over ways to [...]
Tennis ace Murray buys a hotel in plan to repay his home town February 25, 2013 BRITAIN’S No1 tennis player Andy Murray has splashed out £1.8m to acquire a hotel in Dunblane, the planned development of which he hopes will provide a major boost to the economy in his home town. The Cromlix House Hotel, where his brother Jamie married wife Alejandra Gutierrez in 2010, is a Victorian Mansion, which Murray [...]
Furious Wallwork in walk out February 25, 2013 BADMINTON: Commonwealth Games silver medalist Jenny Wallwork, 26, has quit Badminton England’s training programme over a lack of dialogue and leadership, leaving her future career in doubt.
Stegmann seals Exiles switch February 25, 2013 RUGBY: Wing Seb Stegmann has moved from Harlequins to London Welsh. The 23-year-old has signed a contract until 2015.
Italy gridlocked by angry voters February 25, 2013 ITALIAN voters left the Eurozone’s third biggest economy a gridlocked political mess yesterday, with a hung parliament clobbering the euro, spooking stock markets, and sending measures of volatility soaring. Pier Luigi Bersani’s centre-left bloc managed to win a majority in the lower house by dint of the electoral system’s generous winner’s bonus. But projections late last [...]
RBS under orders from the Treasury February 25, 2013 GEORGE Osborne yesterday revealed he is putting unprecedented pressure on RBS to change its business model, pushing the lender to cut its US operations, shrink its investment banking arm and focus on UK household and business lending. In the past the government has kept out of the day-to-day running of the bank, operating at arm’s [...]
BP goes to court over 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion February 25, 2013 OIL GIANT BP faced its first day in court over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill yesterday, in a trial that could drag on the company for up to a year and cost it billions of dollars in fines. The trial – in New Orleans, Louisiana – could last up to a year, and will see [...]
Met Police launch probe into Lib Dem sex claims February 25, 2013 SCOTLAND Yard yesterday confirmed it would investigate sexual harassment claims made against a former Lib Dem official as the scandal continued to engulf the party. The news came as a former party insider told City A.M. that female Lib Dems decided to go public with their claims against Lord Rennard after the peer was allowed to [...]
Study Italy’s election: It is the shape of things to come in UK February 25, 2013 ITALY has spoken. Few in the City like what they are hearing, but they should listen carefully. Bond yields, which had fallen when it was thought the centre-left was cruising to victory, shot back up when it emerged that Silvio Berlusconi and a new, populist protest party were doing well. This bitterly divided vote is [...]
