‘I’m in the form of my life, claims gold medal hopeful Meadows March 11, 2010 BRITISH hope Jenny Meadows insists she is in the form of her life as she goes for gold in?Doha. The 28-year-old followed up her world 800m bronze medal in Berlin last August by beating Kelly Holmes’s British indoor record of 1.57.93 in Birmingham last month. Now she has her sights firmly set on winning another [...]
Woods set for shock return in 11 days’ time March 11, 2010 ABSENT world No1 Tiger Woods is being tipped to make a surprise comeback in less than two weeks’ time. Woods plans to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill near his home in Florida, which starts on 25 March, according to US?reports. He could even take to the course three days earlier at the [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF March 11, 2010 HOCKEY: Reigning champions Germany ended England’s World Cup hopes with a 4-1 semi-final victory in New Delhi. Germany now play Australia in the final, while Britain take on the Netherlands in a third-place play-off tomorrrow.
SPORT | IN BRIEF March 11, 2010 RACING: Jockey Sam Thomas will miss the Cheltenham Festival after suffering a neck injury in a fall at Paul Nicholls’ yard. Thomas, who rode Denham to Gold Cup glory in 2008, was due to ride Tricky Trickster in this year’s showpiece.
SPORT | IN BRIEF March 11, 2010 FOOTBALL: Portsmouth’s hopes of survival received a huge boost yesterday after Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs announced it would not be pursuing its High Court dispute over the validity of the club’s administrator, Andrew Andronikou. A club spokesman said: “The Revenue has accepted the administration is valid.”
HSBC admits that data theft hit up to 24,000 accounts March 11, 2010 HSBC has confirmed that a theft of data by a former employee affected up to 24,000 Swiss client accounts. The bank had previously said “less than 10 clients” were compromised after a former HSBC computer specialist stole client data from the bank which he handed over to French tax authorities. HSBC said in a statement: [...]
John Lewis to give staff £151m bonus March 11, 2010 JOHN Lewis will hand its staff a 15 per cent bonus after reporting a surge in annual profits. The retailer made a profit before the staff bonus and tax of £306.6m in the year to the end of January – up from £279.6m in the previous year. It owns 28 department stores, one John Lewis [...]
JD Wetherspoon restores dividend after record profit March 11, 2010 PUB chain Wetherspoon today announced the end of a year-long dividend freeze after successfully completing its debt refinancing. Shareholders will receive a 12p dividend on 1 April for the year to July 2009 with a further special dividend of 7p a share. Last year it scrapped its dividend payment as negotiated its refinancing. It has [...]
Home Retail Group ups forecasts but Argos slumps March 11, 2010 HOME retail Group – which owns Argos and Homebase – has tipped its pre-tax profit for the year to come in at £290m The figure is slightly ahead of market forecasts for the year to 27 February. Argos sales fell 9.4 per cent while sales at its home improvement operation Homebase declined 0.6 per cent [...]
Morrisons raises dividend after profits surge March 11, 2010 SUPERMARKET chain Morrisons saw a 21 per cent surge in profits last year to £767m. The company, Britain’s fourth largest grocer, raised its full year dividend 41 per cent to 8.2 pence a share on the strength of the results. Morrisons new chief executive Dalton Philips starts later this month. Former chief executive, Marc Bolland, [...]
