England make a stuttering start to Ashes deciding Test August 20, 2009 BATTING hero Ian Bell insists the decisive fifth Ashes Test with Australia is still delicately poised despite England failing to capitalise on favourable conditions at The Oval. Captain Andrew Strauss won the toss on a batting wicket but saw his side struggle to 307-8 at the close despite a battling 72 from Bell, who was [...]
Sluggish England failed to capitalise on a turning track August 20, 2009 WINNING the toss at The Oval yesterday morning was just the boost England needed for this decisive Ashes Test, but captain Andrew Strauss will be well aware that his side have wasted a fantastic opportunity here. As we’ve already seen, the pitch at The Oval is starting to turn, which has completely foxed everybody with [...]
Factory data gives boost to US stocks August 20, 2009 US stocks rose for a third straight session yesterday with financial stocks leading gains after US manufacturing data and a rebound in Chinese stocks reassured investors. The Dow and the S&P 500, which suffered their worst day in about seven weeks on Monday, got a lift from signs of improvement in US Mid-Atlantic manufacturing and [...]
Oils and miners bring FTSE higher, while banks also rise August 20, 2009 BRITAIN’S leading share index gained 1.4 per cent as stocks enjoyed a broad-based recovery yesterday, with heavyweight oils and miners in demand as raw material prices rose while financials also rallied. By the close, the FTSE 100 was 66.91 points higher at 4,756.58, having reversed earlier losses to close slightly higher on Wednesday. The UK [...]
The best of both worlds: new builds take a historic turn August 20, 2009 EVERYONE from Kate Moss to Kylie Minogue to Roman Abramovich has one. Leonardo DiCaprio wants one. That’s because nothing says “I’ve made it” quite like a British country pile, preferably one with stables, guest cottages, tennis courts, carriage houses and swimming pools. Nowadays, if you don’t want the hassle of maintaining an old house, there [...]
Down to earth style August 20, 2009 WHAT a coincidence. Two weeks after the Trade Union Congress declared high heels a menace to health in the workplace, flat shoes have surged to the fore as the must-have fashion accessory for fall. Comfort and style in one – who knew? “Every season, brogues for women come back with more vengeance,” says a spokeswoman [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS August 20, 2009 FILMI LOVE YOU BETH COOPER Low-watt high school romance bobbins with Hayden Panettiere. SCARFACE Re-release time for Al Pacino’s crime lord and his “leedle friend”. CHIKO German drama set in Hamburg’s dark and violent underbelly. DVDIN THE LOOP Armando Iannucci’s hilarious political satire, starring Peter Capaldi. I LOVE YOU, MAN Half-baked “bro-mance” with Paul Rudd [...]
NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST August 20, 2009 THEATRE Arcadia Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly inventive drama, starring Samantha Bond (left) ART Richard Long Tate Britain’s retrospective of the influential land artist. FILM Sin Nombre Searing immigration drama. ART Serpentine Pavillion This year’s Hyde Park architectural project is a sensuous aluminium construction by Japan’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. FILM Les Demoiselles de Rochefort At [...]
Not Quent’s most glorious moment August 20, 2009 FilmINGLOURIOUS BASTERDSCert: 18 THE LONG opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is a piece of scintillating cinematic bravado that must rank alongside the café scene that opens Reservoir Dogs and the “watch up the ass” passage from Pulp Fiction for virtuoso brilliance. In it, an urbane, superficially-charming Gestapo official – who relishes his nickname [...]
NEW SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BUSINESS EDITOR ON STEEP LEARNING CURVE August 20, 2009 AS A replacement for Sky’s newest business recruit Mark Kleinman, a man with one of the fattest contact books in journalism, the appointment of Kamal Ahmed as Sunday Telegraph business editor was never going to sit well with his jilted rivals. Ahmed, currently head of comms at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a [...]
