City A.M. team joins the Vertical Rush up Tower 42 for Shelter March 3, 2015 Several intrepid – some would say mad – members of City A.M.’s staff yesterday joined the Vertical Rush challenger for the homeless charity, Shelter. The five members of our very fit digital team – Adam, Cat, Martin, Sarah and Lynsey – joined X Factor star Shayne Ward and a cast of a 1,000 to climb all the [...]
Late Benteke penalty sees Villa scramble out of relegation zone March 3, 2015 ASTON Villa clambered out of the relegation zone after snatching a precious last-gasp 2-1 success against Midlands rivals West Brom at Villa Park last night. Striker Christian Benteke calmly slotted home an injury-time penalty for his first strike of 2015 after Baggies forward Saido Berahino had cancelled out Gabriel Agbonlahor’s opener, which ended the former [...]
England winger Johnson bailed after sex arrest March 2, 2015 ENGLAND international winger Adam Johnson has been suspended by club side Sunderland following his arrest on suspicion of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. Johnson, 27, was questioned by police but last night bailed after being taken into custody when three unmarked police cars arrived at his £1.85m mansion yesterday morning. “A 27-year-old man was [...]
London’s first pop-up owl bar attracts 25,000 people February 24, 2015 Move over cat cafe, there’s a new creature-based drinking concept in town. Nearly 25,000 people have applied for tickets to London’s first pop-up owl cafe, where a combination of real-life owls and cocktails are expected to be a hoot. The latest of London’s pop-ups will bring Annie the owl (also the name of the bar) [...]
More Greek tragedies, plus another excuse to break the internet: What got us talking this week February 20, 2015 Greece was still the word The cat-and-mouse game between Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble, had everyone guessing. The result? At the time of writing, the Eurogroup was still in negotiations. In the meantime, we've been trying to work out exactly what Varoufakis' leather jacket means, who Greece actually owes, [...]
FA Cup: Bantams twist knife on Poyet February 15, 2015 BRADFORD CITY 2 SUNDERLAND 0 BRADFORD manager Phil Parkinson says he fears nobody in tonight’s FA Cup quarter-final draw after the Bantams eliminated more top-flight opposition in the form of Sunderland yesterday. Former Black Cats striker Jon Stead continued his record of scoring in every round as his strike and a John O’Shea own goal [...]
Would you get a chip in your hand for work? February 12, 2015 The days of security codes and swipe cards could be soon forgotten. Microchips are commonly found in our computers, mobile phones, cats and dogs. But office workers? Not unless we’re suddenly about to become part cyborg. Yet that is exactly what the staff at Epicenter, a high-tech office block in Sweden, are currently being [...]
Parties face hard scrutiny over deficit-cutting plans February 4, 2015 VOTERS face a stark choice on public finances at the general election, the Institute of Fiscal Studies showed yesterday, as its analysts revealed the scale of the difference in spending and debt plans between the two main parties. The Conservative and Labour parties seized on contrasting figures to claim their plans would be best for [...]
Tax competition is good for Europe: Don’t let Jean-Claude Juncker muddy the waters January 21, 2015 At the end of last week, the European Commission disclosed a preliminary finding that Amazon’s tax arrangements in Luxembourg could have constituted “state aid”. While Amazon has said that it had received no special treatment, this is not good news for the Duchy’s former Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, now president of the Commission. Yet the [...]
Two of the big four supermarkets pay less than the cost of production for milk, Sainsbury’s advert claims January 21, 2015 Sainsbury's has revealed how much supermarkets pay farmers for milk- and claims that at least two of the big four stump up less than the cost of production. The figures have been released as part of the grocer's latest ad campaign, which claims that “at Sainsbury's we support our British fresh milk farmers,” asking [...]