Tourists flock to feel London vibe June 3, 2015 LONDON is a tourist mecca. The capital has just trumped Bangkok, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Barcelona and Prague as the world’s most popular tourist destination for the second year running. Top-class exhibitions, blockbuster entertainment, major sporting events and successes in the West End are expected to translate into a record 18.82m visitors by [...]
Football Comment: Villa will pounce should Gunners slip at Wembley May 28, 2015 IT’S THE type of game that players remember most once they retire; a chance to make a name for yourself; the final game of the season and a final push. It might be less of a priority nowadays but the FA Cup final remains a magnificent match to be involved in. Big teams start to [...]
Villa can keep Arsenal waiting in quest to retain FA Cup May 28, 2015 BEN CLEMINSON PREVIEWS THE FA CUP FINAL AND HARRY MADLEY LOOKS AT RUGBY’S PREMIERSHIP FINAL ARSENAL waited nine years for a major trophy but are as short as 2/7 with Betway to get their second in 12 months as they battle Aston Villa to hold on to their FA Cup crown at Wembley tomorrow afternoon. [...]
What was in the 2015 Queen’s Speech, bill-by-bill May 28, 2015 A full employment and welfare benefits bill aiming to create 2m more jobs and 3m more apprenticeships An enterprise bill to cut red tape and help small and medium-sized businesses resolve late payment disputes A personal tax allowance bill raising the personal allowance to £12,500 and linking future increases to the minimum wage A finance bill [...]
Business groups pick apart new policies laid out in Queen’s Speech May 27, 2015 BUSINESS groups largely welcomed yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, but many nevertheless identified concerns with specific policy proposals, including the immigration and childcare bills. Tim Thomas, head of employment policy at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, took issue with the immigration bill, which the government said would include a possible “skills levy” to tax businesses that use foreign labour. [...]
Cook is the perfect man to shrug off batting pressure, insists Root May 27, 2015 ENGLAND vice-captain Joe Root has hailed the tide-turning qualities of skipper Alastair Cook ahead of the second Test against New Zealand at Headingley, which starts tomorrow. Despite no player scoring more Test runs in the last decade than Cook, the 30-year-old’s position at the top of the England batting order had come under scrutiny after [...]
‘It’ll be a Glastonbury but for sport and health’ May 27, 2015 British Athletics chief Niels de Vos has grand plans for Olympic Stadium and they start now BRITISH Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos is in no mood for understatement when discussing the importance of the Olympic Stadium to the future – the survival, even – of UK track and field. His organisation will take up [...]
Flying off the scale: Fever-Tree’s Tim Warrillow talks malaria, crane strikes and private equity May 25, 2015 We're seeing a renaissance; it’s incredibly exciting. People are better educated and the market is growing and growing – and quite right too, it’s a great English invention.” Tim Warrillow is talking about the gin and tonic – something the co-founder of maverick drinks company Fever-Tree knows a fair bit about. The gin and [...]
Self-styled bank sheriff Ben Lawksy hangs up his badge May 21, 2015 Banks in the UK and across Europe will be breathing a little easier next month after New York’s top financial crime cop Ben Lawsky, who mounted an aggressive campaign against some of the world’s biggest institutions, exits his role policing financial firms operating in the Big Apple to take up a West Coast teaching job. [...]
Royal Institute of British Architects awards the gongs for the year’s best cutting edge building designs May 21, 2015 If you work in London, you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to great architecture. Whether we’re renaming iconic office buildings like The Gherkin, dining in converted churches in the East End or catching a train from an 18th century masterpiece, we take our superb architectural blend of the contemporary and the historic for granted. [...]