Cavendish wins Swiss stage four June 17, 2014 CYCLING: Britain’s Mark Cavendish won stage four at the Tour of Switzerland to help Omega Pharma Quick-Step team-mate Tony Martin retain his six-second lead in the general classification. Team Sky’s Sir Bradley Wiggins crashed on the 160.4km leg, leaving him 14 minutes 43 seconds off the pace.
Take Stoute to enhance Duke of Cambridge record with Integral June 17, 2014 SKY LANTERN is the current favourite for today’s Group Two Duke of Cambridge Stakes (4.25pm) and considering she’s a four-time winner at the top level and is dropping a grade, many of you will think the 3/1 available is fair value. But I think she is begging to be taken on. Unlike yesterday’s Queen Anne [...]
Shell and BP to announce big trade deals with China June 16, 2014 SHELL and BP, the UK’s two biggest oil companies, are expected to announce trade deals with China today, on the second day of Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Britain. The deals will form part of what is expected to be an £18bn package being brokered between firms in the two nations by the Chinese and [...]
BT leads the FTSE 100 fallers on pension and regulation fears June 16, 2014 TELECOMS group BT dragged the FTSE 100 index down yesterday on concerns that it will be hit by an increase in its pension deficit and that Ofcom is preparing to crackdown on its wholesale pricing of superfast broadband. BT’s shares dropped 2.4 per cent, the biggest individual faller on the FTSE 100, with traders citing [...]
Domino’s Pizza hacked with 600,000 customers’ details at risk June 16, 2014 Domino's pizza has had its database hacked with the details of over 600,000 customers now in the hands of a hacker called Rex Mundi, according to Sky News. Mundi is demanding the pizza delivery company hand over €30,000 or else the details, which include customers favourite toppings, will be released later today. Answering why he had [...]
Centrica boss Laidlaw gets cold feet over top job at BG Group June 16, 2014 CENTRICA chief Sam Laidlaw will not be moving to take the vacant top spot at BG Group, according to reports that he has privately ruled himself out of the position. The chief executive has been regularly named in connection with the opening at BG group. Laidlaw indicated earlier this year that he wishes to step [...]
Banks appointed as BSkyB mulls plans to buy Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland June 16, 2014 BSkyB has appointed banks as it weighs plans to create a pan-European satellite TV operator by buying up Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland. Morgan Stanley and Barclays, who already act as advisers to BSkyB, have been retained for the proposed transaction, according to Reuters. The BSkyB proposal is said to be an £8bn deal that [...]
Cycling chiefs: We didn’t bend rules for Froome June 15, 2014 CYCLING’S governing body the UCI has refuted suggestions that it bent anti-doping rules to favour Chris Froome ahead of the Tour de Romandie, which the Briton won last month. Froome finished 12th overall at the Criterium du Dauphine yesterday, four minutes 25 seconds behind winner Andrew Talansky from America, though had led the week-long race [...]
Google eyes up Virgin Galactic June 12, 2014 GOOGLE is reportedly considering taking a stake in Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic as part of the search giant’s plans to extend internet access to remote regions of the world. Talks between the companies are in an advanced stage and include both a planned joint venture that would combine millions of dollars from Google and Virgin’s [...]
Google and Virgin Galactic in talks over space tourism business stake June 12, 2014 Google is in late stage talks to acquire a stake in Richard Branson's space tourism venture Virgin Galactic, Sky News reports. The deal is likely to see Google pay £17.8m for a 1.5 per cent stake in the holding company and a cash injection of "hundreds of millions of dollars into a joint venture" to [...]