CPS mulling Terry case after police pass on files December 1, 2011 ENGLAND and Chelsea captain John Terry faces an anxious wait to discover whether he will be prosecuted over allegations of racist abuse, after police passed their file to the Crown Prosecution Service. Centre-back Terry has repeatedly and emphatically denied aiming a racial slur at QPR defender Anton Ferdinand during the Blues’ 1-0 defeat in a [...]
Devonish: I lost medals to drug cheats but don’t mind BOA scrapping life ban December 1, 2011 Exclusive: Sprinter tells Frank Dalleres why dopers deserve a second chance GOLD winning sprinter Marlon Devonish has delivered a blow to the British Olympic Association’s battle to uphold its lifetime ban for doping by insisting he does not mind competing alongside previous offenders at the London 2012 Games. The BOA is under intense pressure to drop [...]
MAKING THE GRADE | London 2012 hopefuls go back to school December 1, 2011 BRITISH London 2012 hopefuls from every single Olympic and Paralympic sport dusted off their uniforms for a school photo-style shoot yesterday – with four-time gold medallist Sir Matthew Pinsent as headmaster. Arsenal footballer Kieran Gibbs (row three, far left), tennis star Elena Baltacha (row two, fifth from left), sprinter Marlon Devonish (row four, fifth from [...]
Villas-Boas: I won’t be sacked December 1, 2011 FOOTBALL: Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas insists he does not fear the sack even if his side are knocked out of Europe against Valencia next week. The Blues have lost three in five Premier League games to slip 10 points behind leaders Manchester City and suffered back to back defeats in the Champions League and Carling [...]
Bresnan undergoes elbow op December 1, 2011 CRICKET: England bowler Tim Bresnan hopes to be fit for the Test series against Pakistan in the new year despite undergoing elbow surgery yesterday. Yorkshire paceman Bresnan had a fragment of bone removed that irritated him in last month’s one-day series defeat in India, but is expected to be included next week when selectors name [...]
The King reaper December 1, 2011 A NEW credit crunch could hit the UK if the crisis ravaging the Eurozone spreads to Britain’s banking system, Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King warned yesterday in one of his grimmest interventions to date. Deputy governor Paul Tucker added to the sense of gloom, warning “almost anything could happen in the Eurozone in the [...]
Eurozone implosion could cost the UK as much as £75bn December 1, 2011 THE UK would face huge costs if the Eurozone disintegrated, economists from ING Bank warn today, as trade would be devastated and financial links with the continent would suffer badly. Britain would face a major recession, losing five per cent of GDP in 2012 – around £75bn. Eurozone economies themselves would face losing 12 per [...]
Iran may face oil embargo December 1, 2011 EUROPEAN authorities have imposed sweeping new sanctions on Iran and threatened to ban states from buying its oil yesterday in a significant escalation of efforts to prevent the country progressing its nuclear ambitions. European Union foreign ministers added 180 Iranian people and institutions to a blacklist that imposes asset freezes and travel bans on those [...]
Britain is hugely exposed to the euro December 1, 2011 THERE was a time when exporters would be regularly urged to trade more with the European Union, which was seen by officials as the great new market for the UK. How times have changed: now companies the world over are doing their best to downplay their exposure to the Eurozone and its crippling toxic debt [...]
UK green target on track December 1, 2011 CHRIS Huhne, the minister for energy and climate change, yesterday insisted the UK was “on track” to beat its target to slash carbon emissions by more than a third by 2020. Speaking before flying to South Africa for the latest round of climate talks, Huhne said the target would have been met even without the [...]
