How to pull off a last-minute holiday body August 2, 2010 NUTRITION IT MAY be tempting, but crash dieting isn’t to be recommended. Any nutritionist worth their salt will tell you how, at best, it may give you the impression of quick weight loss but you’ll feel awful, put the weight back on quickly, mess with your metabolism and risk doing more serious damage. But there [...]
Track, trail or sand: the secret to a good run starts at the shoe shop August 2, 2010 PERSONAL COACH AT FULL POTENTIAL SO you’ve decided to take up running and you’ve made a great decision. Along with obvious health benefits, a great advantage over pastimes like golf or cricket is that you just need yourself, some very basic kit and an open space to get going, making the transition from couch potato [...]
REVIEW: SEASONAL PEDICURE August 2, 2010 **** BROWN’S has the seasonal pedicure market cornered. So simple, yet so lovely. Summer brings Fruity Tootsies: so, tired of my bashed up, blistered feet and overgrown (and in-grown) toenails – the result of two months tromping around London in sandals – I succumbed to some fruity tender loving care. Reclining on a heated treatment [...]
Move was too dangerous, admits Schu August 2, 2010 MICHAEL Schumacher last night apologised to his former Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello after accepting his controversial blocking manoeuvre at Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix was too dangerous. The seven-time world champion was handed a 10-place grid penalty for the next race after the defensive move forced Barrichello to within centimetres of a concrete wall as the [...]
Huang vows to spend big in Liverpool bid August 2, 2010 CHINESE businessman Kenny Huang has promised to give manager Roy Hodgson big money to spend in the transfer market if he succeeds in his bid to buy Liverpool. Huang, a former Wall Street stockbroker and now head of Hong Kong-based investment company QSL Sports Ltd, announced yesterday he had been in talks with Royal Bank [...]
Beaten Murray on track August 2, 2010 ANDY MURRAY is remaining upbeat despite losing to Sam Querrey in the final of the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles on Sunday. The American Queen’s Club champion overcame the British No1 5-7, 7-6 (7-2) after saving a match point in the second set. Murray, who was playing his first tournament since parting ways with coach [...]
Fisher can now repeat my feat with Irish win August 2, 2010 FOUR great tournaments, four tremendous finishes, what a weekend of golf it’s been both here and across the pond. Ross Fisher may have lifted the Irish Open trophy and taken home the £415,000 first prize, but the big winner at Killarney over the weekend was Colin Montgomerie, who saw Fisher move up to sixth and [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF August 2, 2010 Thousands mourn Higgins SNOOKER: Past and present snooker stars gathered to remember former world champion Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins at his funeral in Belfast yesterday. Stephen Hendry, Ken Doherty and Joe Swail joined the mourners at the service in St Anne’s Cathedral as hundreds more gathered outside. The 1972 and 1982 world champion died last month [...]
Dramatic recovery for Britain’s banks August 1, 2010 BANKS will come under renewed pressure to extend credit to small businesses this week as the UK’s five largest lenders reveal combined pre-tax profits of nearly £12bn. With the stronger players returning to pre-financial crisis levels of success, a fresh row is brewing between politicians – who are demanding more finance for enterprises – and [...]
Chris Huhne backs nuclear power August 1, 2010 CHRIS Huhne, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary, performed a remarkable volte-face yesterday by declaring that nuclear power stations were “part of the future”. Huhne, a one-time avowed nuclear sceptic, said: “I believe nuclear investors will come forward and nuclear will play its part in the energy needs of the future.” Yesterday, Huhne said he had [...]
