CULTURE FOR KIDS | WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND July 7, 2011 THE RAILWAY CHILDREN, WATERLOO STATION The acclaimed adaptation of E. Nesbitt’s classic children’s story has returned to the former Eurostar platforms and track at Waterloo Station for another deserved run. Set in the Yorkshire dales, the story of the three Waterbury children entranced by steam trains and helping to prove their wrongly-imprisoned father’s innocence, is [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK | FILM, MUSIC, GAMES July 7, 2011 FILM TRUST David Schwimmer (yes, Ross himself) directs this nuanced look at a family crisis, with Clive Owen. SUPER Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon star in yet another post-modern, post-Kick Ass superhero romp. LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD Alain Resnai’s classic of French New Wave cinema from 1961, on re-release. DVD THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU [...]
Star Witness can finish with a bang July 7, 2011 NO Australian-trained horse has ever won tomorrow’s Group One Darley July Cup (3.35pm), but I expect that to change thanks to Aussie raider STAR WITNESS. Danny O’Brien’s four-year-old ran two absolute crackers at Royal Ascot and this will be his last ever race, as he is due to go back to stud in his homeland. [...]
England hope to swing in the rain July 7, 2011 Tomorrow – 10.45 am, Sky Sports THE reliability of rainfall and changeable weather during the English summer does have its plus points. Well, for the England cricket team it does at least. It helped them to a 10-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Wednesday. The conditions at Trent Bridge enabled the Three Lions bowling department [...]
NEWS CORP FEARS DELAY TO SKY BID July 6, 2011 NEWS Corp bosses yesterday feared they may be forced to delay the firm’s multi billion pound bid for BSkyB, as the toxic political and commercial fallout of the phone hacking scandal continued to gather pace. Bankers close to the deal told City A.M. that negotiations have ground to a halt while both sides consider the [...]
Chancellor on hacking target list July 6, 2011 CHANCELLOR George Osborne yesterday joined the unenviable roll-call of people targeted by News of the World phone hackers. Police visited Osborne last night to tell him that his personal details appeared on notes kept by convicted criminal Glenn Mulcaire and shamed former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman. It is not clear if [...]
US to seize pay at failed banks July 6, 2011 BANK executives whose behaviour is deemed “negligent” by US authorities could have up to two years’ worth of pay confiscated by the state under proposals voted into the American rulebook yesterday. In the last meeting under its current chief Sheila Bair, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) voted five to one in favour of a [...]
EU guilty of credit rating hypocrisy July 6, 2011 SOME people simply can’t win. The largest credit rating agencies – Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch – were rightly pilloried for providing ridiculously optimistic advice in the run-up to the financial crisis, deeming bundles of sub-prime mortgages to be as safe as the debt of very cautious and successful companies or governments. It was [...]
Lagarde takes swipe at DSK July 6, 2011 CHRISTINE Lagarde began her tenure as IMF chief with a swipe at her predecessor, saying her leadership will be “more inclusive”. She used her first speech as new IMF chief to say she will push ahead with reforms to give fast-growing emerging markets more influence at the global lender. The former French finance minister said: [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 6, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES SPOTIFY SIGNS DEAL WITH VIRGIN Spotify and Virgin Media on Wednesday announced a deal that could help the music streaming service boost numbers of paying customers and reach a wider audience. By the end of the year, Virgin Media’s 4m UK customers will be able to access Spotify’s catalogue of 13m songs through [...]
