No respite for hero Cavendish July 25, 2011 BRITAIN’S Tour de France hero Mark Cavendish admits he won’t recover from his green jersey-winning exertions until the end of the year. The Isle of Man rider has only the briefest of rests before climbing back into the saddle – the 26-year-old is set to race again this evening. His first competition on home soil [...]
Qatar bid to host Tour de France July 25, 2011 QATAR has launched an audacious bid to host the opening stage of the Tour de France in 2016. The Grand Depart is often held in a neighbouring country, with London kicking off the 2007 Tour, but moving to the Middle East would be a major change in policy. The Gulf kingdom is becoming an increasingly [...]
Wasps hire Turner as coach July 25, 2011 RUGBY UNION: Wasps boss Dai Young has recruited former Newport-Gwent Dragons head coach Paul Turner as an attack and skills coach. Turner, 51, left Dragons in February after criticising the Welsh Rugby Union’s treatment of the club’s players.
Albert ball for London 2012 July 25, 2011 OLYMPICS: The football used in the London 2012 Games will be called ‘The Albert’, the Cockney rhyming slang for ball, manufacturers Adidas said yesterday. The name – a shortened version of Albert Hall – was chosen following a nationwide competition.
Mixed pool fortunes for Brits July 25, 2011 SWIMMING: Britain’s Gemma Spofforth has failed to defend her 100m backstroke title at the Fina World Championships. Spofforth, hampered by illness, did not even make the semi-finals, but Lizzie Simmonds qualified for the final in Shanghai.
Fear returns to markets July 25, 2011 CONFIDENCE in politicians’ ability to solve the debt crises of the developed world collapsed yesterday, sending bank shares into a tailspin and ramping up the cost of sovereign borrowing. As US politicians bickered over the debt ceiling and investors fled EU financial stocks, Italy was forced to cancel a bond auction set for August on [...]
Cable: end universal banking July 25, 2011 VINCE Cable, the business secretary, will today call on the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to sound the death-knell for universal banking by backing a form of ring-fencing that is just as tough as a full-scale break up of Britain’s banks. His intervention will put pressure on the ICB to explain why it has decided [...]
Cameron: No new stimulus July 25, 2011 PRIME Minister David Cameron warned yesterday that Britain’s path back to growth “will be a difficult one” ahead of growth figures today that will reveal Britain’s economy flatlined for most of the year. Gross domestic product (GDP) figures from the Office for National Statistics are expected to show this morning how the economy grew just [...]
It’s as if the coalition wanted to fail July 25, 2011 IMAGINE you were trying to cripple private sector growth and throttle the recovery. Yes, I know only a fool would want to do that. But seriously – what would you do? Here are a few ideas. For a start, you would try and tie up businesses with as much red tape as possible. You would [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 25, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES HACKING FEARS SPARK TRINITY REVIEW Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, has launched a review of its editorial controls and procedures amid investor anxiety that phone-hacking claims could spread beyond the defunct News of the World. Trinity saw its shares fall 9.8 per cent yesterday over concern among investors that the [...]
