I Give it a Year is a tired stab at a Brit rom-com February 7, 2013 FILM I GIVE IT A YEAR Cert: 15 * What could be worse than sitting through the wedding of two selfish and incompatible people that you don’t know or like? I can tell you: sitting through the aftermath – having to watch as the marriage dies a slow death at the hands of petty, bin-related [...]
Ronaldo Des Mottes and Village Vic the value in Betfair Hurdle February 7, 2013 TOMORROW’S Betfair Hurdle at Newbury (3.00pm) seems to revolve around Nicky Henderson’s My Tent Or Yours. With the stable losing Champion Hurdle contender Darlan in a tragic fall at Doncaster on Monday, it would be great to see AP McCoy, who was on board Darlan when he upturned at the last, and owner JP McManus [...]
Blue square bet winter carnival February 7, 2013 We had some thrilling finishes in last week’s Blue Square Bet Sprint Series and we’re really building up a head of steam with the Grand Final just two weeks away. Luke Morris returns to Lingfield Park Racecourse tomorrow having had to sit out all but one of the rounds so far through suspension. We rate [...]
Red Rose can build on fine form by passing Dublin test February 7, 2013 ENGLAND meet Ireland at the Aviva Stadium for the second round of Six Nations matches after a memorable opening weekend that featured an impressive defeat of Scotland by the Red Rose and another significant step forward for Italian rugby as they edged out France. Stuart Lancaster’s decision to trust a number of younger players was [...]
Spurs and Man United in tough home ties February 7, 2013 HAVING had a frustrating few months with a leaky defence, it’s now in attack that Tottenham find themselves struggling. Spurs are likely to line up tomorrow lunchtime without a recognised striker on the pitch. Jermain Defoe is ruled out through injury and Emmanuel Adebayor has just returned from the Africa Cup of Nations. No one [...]
The Road to Cheltenham February 7, 2013 WWW.STARSPORTSBET.CO.UK 08000 521 321 PLENTY of races at this year’s Cheltenham Festival have a far more open feel to them than usual. The markets for the Gold Cup and World Hurdle currently resemble handicaps, while the Neptune Novices Hurdle is shaping up to be one of the races of the week. One race that doesn’t [...]
Notes on a scandal February 6, 2013 RBS took a £390m fine for Libor fiddling yesterday after watchdogs found that 21 staff had colluded with rivals over four years to fix the key market interest rates for the benefit of their own financial positions. Traders offered each other steaks and sushi in exchange for entering false interest rates to drive the Japanese [...]
UK in line for fresh tax hit following 2015 election February 6, 2013 CHANCELLOR George Osborne may be forced to hit UK citizens with yet another swathe of taxes after the next election, in order to fill the hole in the country’s finances. Current budget plans imply total real term cuts of 33.2 per cent in unprotected departmental spending between the 2010-11 and 2017-18 fiscal years, the Institute [...]
Coalition mishandles its response to Libor and NHS scandals February 6, 2013 NO wonder trust is at a low ebb in Britain today. Two major institutions – RBS and the NHS – have been shown to have failed. We devote much of our front page to some of the shameful emails sent by the traders involved in the Libor rate-rigging scandal; this has been another disastrous day [...]
What the other papers say this morning February 6, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Buyout firms seek £10bn EE bid Buyout firms have accelerated talks with lenders to secure funding for possible £10bn bids for EE, the UK’s largest mobile phone operator, in what would be the biggest private equity-backed acquisition in Europe since the financial crisis. The efforts have picked up in intensity in the past [...]
