By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with City A.M. Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: joe.hall@cityam.com

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BBC calls off Top Gear live shows scheduled for this weekend

March 23, 2015

The BBC has put the brakes on plans to stage four live Top Gear shows, as it deals with the fallout of an alleged ruckus between star presenter Jeremy Clarkson and producer Oisin Tymon. Plans to stage four live shows in Norway this weekend to a combined crowd of roughly 20,000 have been put on [...]
Rangers end Mike Ashley loan agreement but take £1.5m from Three Bears consortium

March 23, 2015

Cash-strapped Rangers will receive a boost after Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor agreed to provide £1.5m loans to the football club. The loans from the group known as the "Three Bears consortium" are being made available until 31 December 2015 for working capital requirements and will be provided on an unsecured basis, meaning [...]
RBS to sell stake in US subsidiary Citizens Financial

March 23, 2015

Royal Bank of Scotland will shrink its stake in its US subsidiary Citizens Financial to below 50 per cent. Citizens Financial has announced RBS will sell off 115m shares in the company which only listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September. RBS will also grant the underwriters – including Morgan Stanley, Goldman [...]
Lee Kuan Yew’s Singaporean “economic miracle” in charts

March 23, 2015

In the wake of Lee Kuan Yew’s death at the age of 91, the former Singapore prime minister’s startling economic achievements are being remembered and celebrated. Singapore’s economic miracle, which saw the tiny South-East Asian island blossom into one of the world’s leading financial centres, was largely driven by Yew’s unrelenting (often to a fault) [...]
Manchester United win means Liverpool must make history to qualify for Champions League

March 22, 2015

With Manchester United taking home three points from their trip to Anfield, Liverpool will need to make a small slice of Premier League history if they are to qualify for next season’s Champions League. Thanks to two Juan Mata goals and Steven Gerrards’ rapid red card, Louis van Gaal’s side inflicted a first league defeat [...]
Russia warns Denmark of nuclear threat if it joins Nato missile defence shield

March 22, 2015

Russia has warned Denmark of a nuclear strike on its warships if the Scandinavian country joins Nato’s missile defence shield. The Russian ambassador to Denmark Mikhail Vanin issued the dramatic threat in an opinion piece published in the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Vanin wrote that Denmark had not comprehended the consequences of joining the [...]
Christine Lagarde: IMF would be “delighted” to work with China-led AIIB

March 22, 2015

China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has hoovered up yet more support, after the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Christine Lagarde said there was “massive” room for cooperation between the two. Managing director Lagarde told a conference in Beijing the IMF would be “delighted” to work with the AIIB on infrastructure financing, according to Reuters. [...]
Suspended Tory MP Afzal Amin wanted to “prevent further tensions” with fake EDL protest

March 22, 2015

Afzal Amin, the Conservative MP suspended for allegedly colluding with the EDL to win votes, has said he was aiming to “prevent further inter-communal tensions and violence”. The Tory election candidate for Dudley North is alleged by the Mail on Sunday to have plotted with current EDL leader Steve Eddowes and former leader Tommy Robinson [...]
Ukip suspends MEP and General Election candidate Janice Atkinson

March 19, 2015

Ukip has suspended MEP and General Election candidate Janice Atkinson "following allegations of a serious financial nature", the party said on Thursday night. Atkinson is an MEP for the South East and was due to contest the Folkestone and Hythe seat in the election on 7 May. The decision is thought to be related to [...]
Pharrell Williams: Blurred Lines copyright verdict handicaps creators

March 19, 2015

Pharrell Williams has spoken out about his court defeat last week, warning that the entertainment industry would grind to a halt if the example of the jury who ruled his smash hit "Blurred Lines" had infringed the copyright of Marvin Gaye's 1977 sing "Got to Give It Up". Last week Williams and singer Robin Thicke [...]

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