OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS August 13, 2009 FILMTHE PERFECT GETAWAY Psycho hriller with Milla Jovovich. IMAGINE THAT Eddie Murphy kids comedy. Yuck.ALIENS IN THE ATTIC Kids comedy along Gremlins lines. DVD90210 COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Whither Jason Priestley? HOTEL BABYLON SERIES 4 Inexplicably popular BBC rubbish.HIGH HEELS Pedro Almodovar’s early 90s classic. MUSICCALVIN HARRIS Scottish dance dude gets Ready for the Weeekend. THE [...]
Breaking the Speedo limit August 13, 2009 HATS off to Alton Towers for banning Speedos. If only the same spirit had been present in the pools and beaches I frequented as a child on holiday with my family. The now-famous French swimming pool Speedo-only rule was a memorable feature of our trips abroad – there were even times when my father rocked [...]
Chelsea can stop United’s historic four-in-a-row bid August 13, 2009 THE Community Shield is never of major significance to the top managers, but it’s one-nil to Carlo Ancelotti after his first tussle with likely title rival, Sir Alex Ferguson. The sides looked very evenly matched, but Cristiano Ronaldo is a huge loss for United and if they get a couple of injuries to big players, [...]
Draw looks the safest bet in White Hart Lane clash August 13, 2009 TOTTENHAM vs LIVERPOOL SUNDAY 4.00PM – SKY SPORTS 1 THIS is a huge season for both Harry Redknapp and Rafa Benitez and they will know that they can send out a big message to their rivals with a win here. Liverpool have the edge in recent league encounters, winning five of the last seven meetings, [...]
WINDFALL TAX PROFS WON’T BE FOBBED OFF August 13, 2009 THE City may have slammed ideas of a windfall tax on bonuses yesterday, but the group of university professors who originally mooted the idea in a letter to The Guardian are far from deterred. The dusty academics’ plans, which would see the money from the tax injected back into public services, were labelled “gratuitous”, “impossible” [...]
CITY TOUCH TOURNAMENT August 13, 2009 ELEVEN City firms lined up yesterday at the HAC Royal Artillery Ground to compete in the ETF City Touch Tournament, organised by ETF Securities in association with Harlequins rugby club in order to promote Rugby League in the heart of the City. After a nailbiting afternoon of action, Morgan Stanley (in dark blue, playing against [...]
EUROPEAN PAIR LEAD RECOVERY August 13, 2009 FRANCE and Germany made a surprise return to growth in the second quarter of 2009, official data showed yesterday, making them the first of the major economies to exit the worst post-war global recession. Figures from Eurostat showed that Western Europe’s two largest economies both grew by 0.3 per cent in the three months to [...]
Observer gets its first offer August 13, 2009 INVESTMENT boutique Capital Ideas has launched an audacious bid to buy the embattled Observer newspaper from Guardian Media Group (GMG) for a nominal sum, with a view to turning the brand into a weekly news magazine and website. In the first of what is sure to be a number of bids to emerge for the [...]
Clubs vying for capital gains August 13, 2009 LAST YEAR might have been a bad one for the City, but for London’s clubs it was a boom time of sorts. Although Chelsea were the only side to finish with silverware, all five of the capital’s outfits claimed top 10 places, and most have reasonable hopes of improving this season. But on the eve [...]
Lethal Anelka to Nic it for settled-down Chelsea August 13, 2009 NOT since a certain Jose Mourinho was stalking the Stamford Bridge dugout in his Armani overcoat have Chelsea lifted the Premier League trophy. But I’ve a feeling new boss Carlo Ancelotti will be hoisting it aloft come May. The Blues look stronger to me than last season, while their rivals appear to be weaker. Manchester [...]
