With less than three weeks until voters go to the polls, is Donald Trump now too far behind to win? October 20, 2016 Ed Bowsher, deputy editor at Share Radio, says Yes. I said back in January that Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump and I haven’t changed my mind. Trump’s comments on women have been very damaging and his victory next month is extremely unlikely. Clinton’s average poll lead over Trump is now 7 per cent, according to [...]
Obama tells Trump to stop whining over “rigged election” claims October 19, 2016 Thank you, Barack Obama, for telling Donald Trump what we've all been thinking. The outgoing US President has told the Republican nominee to "stop whining" about the possibility that the election could be rigged. Trump has stepped up his attacks on his rival Hillary Clinton over the last week, accusing her of colluding with the [...]
Total lockdown: NatWest freezes Russian TV station’s accounts October 18, 2016 The UK is facing a new round of tit-for-tat reprisals from Russia following a shock move by NatWest to freeze the bank accounts of Kremlin-funded news channel RT. British journalists could be among those targeted by the Kremlin in the aftermath of the decision to close UK accounts being used by the broadcaster, previously called Russia Today. RT revealed [...]
Tennis star Nick Kyrgios set to see sports psychologist under threat of eight-week ban October 17, 2016 Bad boy Nick Kyrgios is set to comply with tennis chiefs’ demand that he sees a psychologist in order to avoid a ban from the sport that would keep him out until next year. The measure is part of a second wave of sanctions for the Australian’s behaviour last week at the Shanghai Masters, where [...]
Exxon has lost over $1 Billion from Russian sanctions October 17, 2016 Exxon has turned into a collateral victim of the U.S. economic sanctions against Russia. So while supermajor BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley said earlier this week that he was “a little saddened” with the way the Deepwater Horizon movie has painted his company, Exxon’s Rex Tillerson has perhaps an even greater reason to be a [...]
Holiday Homes: Keith Perry searches for affordable second homes on the Cap d’Antibes October 14, 2016 As the superyachts glide across the gulf of Juan-les-Pins and vintage Porsches roll out of the multimillion pound villas on the Cap d’Antibes, it’s not hard to see how F Scott Fitzgerald found the inspiration for The Great Gatsby while looking out to sea from one of these beautiful villas. Avenues of pine trees lead [...]
In pictures: The highs and lows of Jess Ennis-Hill’s glorious career October 13, 2016 Jess Ennis-Hill enjoyed a decade at the highest level in which she became one of Britain’s most successful track and field athletes of all time. Here is how a stellar track and field career unfolded. Read more: Jess Ennis-Hill retires and says: "I know the time is right" 2006-2008: Showing promise Ennis won her first [...]
Former Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Guterres elected by UN general assembly as new secretary-general October 13, 2016 Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been elected as the new United Nations secretary-general by the UN General Assembly. The decision was widely expected, after none of the five UN Security Council veto powers — China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US — voted against him in a secret ballot last week. Guterres, a former [...]
“I know the time is right”: Jess Ennis-Hill calls time on one of British athletics’s greatest careers October 13, 2016 London 2012 golden girl Jess Ennis-Hill insists she is bowing out on a high after bringing down the curtain on one of Britain’s finest track and field careers. Ennis-Hill, who won two World Championship titles as well as her defining triumph at her home Olympic Games, confirmed her retirement on Thursday after a decade of [...]
The times they are a changin’: Songwriter Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature October 13, 2016 Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Dylan moved to New York in 1961 to perform in clubs and cafes in Greenwich Village and shortly after met the record producer John Hammed, with whom he signed a contract for [...]