Fifty shades of blockbuster success June 7, 2012 BOOKS FIFTY SHADES OF GREY By EL James (Arrow) An urgent message reached me last week as I was heading to the airport for a Jubilee weekend trip to Israel: “Bring four copies of Fifty Shades of Grey pretty please.” It came from a 34 year old friend in Tel Aviv who, along with three [...]
VOTE FOR THE WORLD’S BEST WATCH June 7, 2012 City A.M. is partnering with the luxury magazine for watch lovers, 00/24 WatchWorld, to identify the most impressive new wristwatch. Watch-loving readers are invited to go online and pick their favourite from all the models nominated for this year’s 00/24 WatchWorld Watch of the Year awards. Voters will themselves be entered into a prize draw [...]
Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 America’s master of dark fantasy June 7, 2012 THE author of modern classics including Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury died this Tuesday aged 91, but his work will endure. Few can match Bradbury’s gift for employing fantastic settings to such thought-provoking and often horrifying effect. A master of the short story, his best works draw the reader in with a [...]
Portugal too big at 20/1 with Ronaldo in the line-up June 7, 2012 SPAIN once again go into a major tournament as favourites and victory at Euro 2012 will make them the first- ever European team to win three straight titles. That would be some achievement by a country branded perennial underachievers until four years ago. Vicente Del Bosque’s men always have to be feared, but the Spanish [...]
Madrid maestro can carry his superb club form over to the international stage June 7, 2012 I’M ASKING a lot of Cristiano Ronaldo here, but I think he has the ability to not only take Portugal to the latter stages, but be the tournament top scorer too. Free-kick, dribble, header – or a tap in – there is no goal, too simple or spectacular, that Ronaldo cannot score. He has it [...]
Polish promise hints at happy start for hosts June 7, 2012 NO host nation has won the European Championship since France in 1984, and while Poland are 50/1 shots to scratch that 28-year itch, they do look set for an extended involvement in their own backyard. They will be more encouraged by the fact that of the 15 countries to have held the previous 13 tournaments [...]
Bill Esdaile’s Top Weekend Racing Tips June 7, 2012 STARVED of competitive football for two-and-a-half years, Poland will be chomping at the bit and they can get the Euro 2012 party started with a win against Greece in Warsaw tonight, at 21/20 with BetVictor. They come into the fixture with three wins in the bag from their warm-up games against Latvia, Slovakia and Andorra [...]
Over to you, Merkel June 6, 2012 Europe’s political leaders must act now to restore confidence and stop their ravaged economies from collapsing any further, European Central Bank (ECB) boss Mario Draghi insisted yesterday as he again refused to cut interest rates. Draghi stressed the Eurozone’s problems could not be solved by monetary policy, and that politicians must stop hesitating and take [...]
LeakedIn: six million logins posted online June 6, 2012 LINKEDIN, the social network for professionals, yesterday admitted it was looking into claims that millions of its users’ passwords had been leaked online. What seemed to be almost 6.5m encrypted LinkedIn passwords were posted in a Russian forum – without the corresponding usernames – by someone claiming to have hacked into the website. LinkedIn took [...]
Former BlackRock City offices set for major redevelopment June 6, 2012 PLANS to redevelop BlackRock’s City headquarters into a new 319,000 square feet office block were recommended for approval yesterday, as the latest office block in the Square Mile takes a step closer to construction. The island site at 33 King William Street on the north side of London Bridge is owned by Topland, the property [...]
