Eton Dorney to host World Cup August 20, 2012 ROWING: London 2012 venue Eton Dorney has been awarded host status for the 2013 Rowing World Cup. “This event will help bring thousands of new fans to the sport,” said Hugh Robertson.
Yanuyanutawa signs for Exiles August 20, 2012 RUGBY UNION: London Irish have signed Fiji prop Jerry Yanuyanutawa.
McEachran agrees Boro loan August 20, 2012 FOOTBALL: Chelsea midfielder Josh McEachran has joined Middlesbrough on a season-long loan deal.
150-mile cycle ride to honour cricketer Tom August 20, 2012 IT might not sounds like much given the recent exploits of cycling heroes Bradley Wiggins or Mark Cavendish, but the 30-strong team arriving in London today at the end of a 150-mile bike ride across the country are far from professional cyclists. In fact the majority of the group completing the route from Cardiff to [...]
Mayor’s auction passes £200,000 August 20, 2012 JUST four days into the bidding for City Wenlock, the huge sums offered for the gentlemanly mascot have helped pushed the total amount raised for the Mayor’s Fund for London in the Olympics auction to £201,000 – with plenty more to come in the next few weeks. The highest price reached so far has been [...]
City Views | Is the Uk handling the assange affair well? August 20, 2012 DAOUD AOUANE AMLIN The UK may have been more aggressive than it would have been due to pressure from the US, but as a member of the EU there are obligations to Sweden. Threatening to storm an embassy seems a tad extreme. SEAN MCGUINESS DLA PIPER The sanctity of an embassy shouldn’t be breached. We [...]
Iglo’s Birds Eye frozen range beats gloom August 20, 2012 PRIVATE equity-owned Iglo Group, the firm behind popular UK brands such as Birds Eye fish fingers, yesterday posted half year core sales growth of 3.7 per cent – led by a UK boom in frozen food sales. The company, which was put up for sale by owners Permira this year but taken off the market [...]
Bovis leader calls for lenders to raise awareness of NewBuy August 20, 2012 THE CHIEF executive of Bovis Homes yesterday called for banks to take further action to promote the government’s NewBuy scheme as first-time home buyers remain left in the dark. David Ritchie praised the scheme, which offers 95 per cent loan-to-value mortgages, but said reservations were still trickling in at three or four per week. “What [...]
Building your house on government support does not provide the firmest of foundations August 20, 2012 BETWEEN a government practically falling over itself to offer support and the supply constraints that continue to dog the UK property sector, there are worse things to be, even in today’s difficult marketplace, than a housebuilder. As Bovis Homes proved yesterday, with a doubling of pre-tax profit in the first half of the year compared [...]
R3: Half of jobs survive after shops collapse August 20, 2012 MORE than half of all jobs at risk when high street retailers fall into administration are saved, new figures from the insolvency trade body R3 show. Its analysis of major retail insolvencies in the last financial year reveals that 53 per cent of jobs are saved during the insolvency process while 48 per cent of [...]
