Leicester and Saracens star in my Premiership rugby Team of the Season May 12, 2023 It is that time again when everyone with an interest in rugby names their Premiership Team of the Season. I am no different, so here goes. It took a small amount of debate with City A.M. colleagues but, all in all, this was one of the easiest XVs to put together. Front row Gloucester loosehead [...]
Trainline shrugs off UK strikes with £4.3bn in ticket sales as continental success keeps it on right track May 4, 2023 Trainline reported bumper ticket sales of £4.3bn for the last 12 months, up 72 per cent year on year and 16 per cent higher than pre-Covid. The London-listed seller saw revenues of £327m, up 74 per cent from last year, citing surging ticket sales in the UK and on the continent especially as a key [...]
Air film review: Ben Affleck’s feel-good Nike movie April 27, 2023 Good Will Hunting besties Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reteam for the story behind the Air Jordan shoe, a product that still is the gold standard among sneaker heads but had a rocky road to infamy. This biopic follows Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), an executive at the struggling Nike brand who believes he has found basketball’s [...]
Explainer: Is there an electric car price war? April 18, 2023 Execs at Renault are considering price cuts after the falling cost of a Tesla.
Asda introduces self driving delivery vans in AI first April 17, 2023 Asda is rolling out its largest autonomous delivery trial with customers in London set to receive their groceries via self driving cars. The UK’s third largest grocery store is launching the scheme in partnership with Wayve, a developer of artificial intelligence for self driving cars, and the pair will use Jaguar I-Pace electric cars for [...]
Gordon Murray’s T.33 Spider is a £1.8 million hypercar head-rush April 11, 2023 The new T.33 Spider from Gordon Murray Automotive combines a super-light carbon fibre chassis with a 617hp Cosworth V12 and manual gearbox.
Germany wins exemption over EU laws to ban CO2-emitting cars March 29, 2023 EU countries gave final approval end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035, after Germany won an exemption e-fuel vehicles.
Unions slam government’s ‘appalling decision’ to award freeport contract to firm behind P&O Ferries sackings March 27, 2023 Trade unions have hit out at the UK government over its decision to let the company that owns P&O Ferries run the new Thames Freeport development – after the Dubai-owned shipping company “chose” to break the law by firing nearly 800 staff last year. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak slammed the government’s “appalling decision” to [...]
Ford admits it’s losing billions as heavy investment in electric puts brakes on profit March 23, 2023 Ford’s electric vehicle business has lost three billion US dollars (£2.44 billion) before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year as the company invests heavily in the new technology. The figures were released on Thursday as Ford rolled out a new way of reporting financial results. The new [...]
Rail strikes dent Trainline ticket sales as firm nursed £6m hit every day March 15, 2023 Online rail ticketing business Trainline has said annual ticket sales fell short of expectations, as rail strikes left it nursing a hit of up to £6 million a day. The group said ongoing industrial action on UK railways cost it £5 million to £6 million in gross sales impact on average per strike day. It [...]