Grand National Free Bets and Betting Offers 2025 April 4, 2025 The Grand National is one of the most highly anticipated events in the horse racing calendar, alongside the Cheltenham Festival. It is a great opportunity to bet on this exciting market, and the vast range of betting offers and Grand National free bet promotions make it even better. This article will cover everything horse racing [...]
The Hunger Games on stage: ‘The appetite for something new is really high’ April 3, 2025 This October, a new 1,200-seat theatre in London will welcome the world’s first stage production of The Hunger Games – based on the hugely popular book and film series of the same name. It’s an ambitious production from an ambitious company: the stage is purpose built, the creative team is world class, and it’s happening, [...]
ECB facing pressure to drop prices in Hundred franchise sale April 2, 2025 The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) could be asked to accept less than the £520m offered by new investors for 49 per cent of the eight Hundred franchises if they refuse to hand over control of the competition’s next television contract, which will begin in 2028. The ECB wants to continue its successful policy [...]
Spring Statement 2025: Reeves misses trick ignoring sport and Old Trafford March 27, 2025 Standing at the dispatch box on Wednesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her much anticipated Spring Statement. Just months after her autumn fiscal plan, where she hiked taxes by £40bn and confirmed funding for a football regulator which continues to divide the game, the member of parliament for Leeds West and Pudsey – and one of [...]
‘The deal was done before the starters arrived’: Fundment CEO on the art of the business lunch March 27, 2025 Fundment founder Ola Abdul secured £45m earlier this year. He tells us how he did it, including the art of the business lunch.
Will rising costs kill off Savile Row’s renaissance? March 25, 2025 On a Wednesday morning earlier this month, there was plenty of activity on the shop floor at the Georgian townhouse that plays home to Richard James’ bespoke suit-making. One staff member is on the phone discussing colours and time frames, another getting a glass of water for a customer in the changing room, and smartly [...]
‘Corporate purpose? It went too far’, says man behind Britain’s Davos March 25, 2025 John O’Brien founded Anthropy – an annual gathering of corporate and political luminaries dubbed ‘Britain’s Davos’ – to help the UK ‘build back better’ from the pandemic. On the eve of its third instalment in the Eden Project’s greenery, Ali Lyon asks the ex-army captain, “Has it failed?” It is October 2022, and a group [...]
Plans approved for £600m Euston Tower revamp March 21, 2025 British Land’s plans to strip and redevelop Euston Tower in a £600m project have been approved by Camden Council. The tower, which was originally built in 1970 and sits next to Euston station, will undergo a complete revamp with new office space, restaurants and terraces. “We are delighted to receive planning consent for this incredible [...]
Coventry IOC election clears Russia ‘return to Olympic podium’, says Kremlin sport minister March 21, 2025 Russia believes the election of Kirsty Coventry as IOC president can see the banned nation “return to the Olympic podium”. Russian Olympic Committee president and sports minister Mikhail Degtyarev congratulated Coventry on her election, in a vote that surprisingly took just one round to find an overall majority conclusion. Briton Lord Coe got just eight [...]
Asda’s confident new boss is a boon for shoppers, and a threat to rivals March 19, 2025 Asda's bold new boss may have spooked rivals, but shoppers will come out on top, writes Susannah Streeter in today's Notebook.