Youngs ready to return October 3, 2012 RUGBY UNION: England and Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs could return from injury in tomorrow’s fixture away to Sale. Team-mates Manu Tuilagi and Mathew Tait could also be set to return to the first team.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix Britain’s trains October 3, 2012 THE announcement of the suspension of not only the West Coast train competition – which covers trains from Euston to the north west – but the whole of the rail franchising programme and a number of the department’s officials, has sent shock waves through Britain’s rail sector. Patrick McLoughlin, the secretary of state for transport, [...]
Here’s a radical idea: Let’s take stock before introducing more regulation October 3, 2012 FINANCIAL services regulations aren’t like London buses, where you wait around for ages and then three come along at once. There’s no waiting around, and they come by the busload all the time. So far this week, we’ve had Ed Miliband threatening to break up the banks, and then the EU’s Liikanen report calling for [...]
Why both left and right must call for an EU referendum October 3, 2012 WHY would we – a card-carrying Conservative eurosceptic City man, and a life-long europhile Labour activist and former special adviser to two Labour cabinet ministers – team up? What project could possibly unite us? The People’s Pledge. The People’s Pledge is the politically independent campaign for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European [...]
After reporting its first fall in profits since 1994, is Tesco now facing serious decline? October 3, 2012 YES Neil Saunders Those looking for a quick turnaround from Tesco will be disappointed by the latest results, which underline deep-rooted problems. UK like-for-like sales growth has improved since the last update. However, this has been driven by more discounting; a short-term solution that treats the symptoms of Tesco’s illness, but does very little in [...]
Rapid Responses October 3, 2012 Attack on property I’m a chartered surveyor working in London, and I was recently informed that Newham Council has decided to introduce mandatory blanket licensing of all rental properties in the borough. Letting agents or private landlords must pay £150 if they apply for a license by the end of the year. Afterwards, a five-year [...]
Masters degrees for a post-crisis business career October 3, 2012 FIVE years on from the collapse of Northern Rock, and the ensuing crisis is still keenly felt in the world’s business schools. It’s been the source of some soul-searching – professors have had to question their roles as the educators of some of the crisis’s leading figures. Much of the critique is rightly rebutted. Michel [...]
Battle of the hot new e-readers October 3, 2012 Kindle Paperwhite, $119 (US price) Amazon says this is the Kindle it has always wanted to build. The Paperwhite is similar to the Kindle Touch but with one important difference – it comes with a built-in light that “evenly illuminates the screen”, allowing you to read in the dark. The only problem is, if you live [...]
FTSE 100 down on poor Chinese data October 3, 2012 The leading share index slipped back under the 5,800 mark this morning, as weak Chinese services sector data weighed on investor sentiment. Mining stocks were hit, as the poor outlook from Asia raised concerns about raw demand. Leading the fallers in early trade was Lamprell, down more than 32 per cent, as it issued its [...]
easyJet raises profit forecasts October 3, 2012 Low-cost airline easyJet said this morning it expected to report a pre-tax profit of between £310m and £320m for the year to end September, boosted by travellers booking last-minute summer holidays. It previously expected to report between £280m to £300m over the year. “Following the end of the Olympic Games, demand from London increased towards [...]
