Frankie a nice one to be on at 32/1 with sponsors in BetBright Chase February 20, 2014 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS BETBRIGHT CHASE DAY AT KEMPTON PARK THE WET weather has left most trainers pulling their hair out, but not Venetia Williams, the queen of National Hunt racing, who continues to fire in big Saturday winner after big Saturday winner. Tomorrow’s main race is the £100,000 BetBright Chase at Kempton Park (3.50pm) and [...]
Expect rate hikes in spring 2015, says Bank’s Weale February 20, 2014 Households should prepare themselves for an increase in interest rates "next spring", the Bank of England's Martin Weale has told Sky News. Weale, an external member of the Bank's monetary policy committee, said: "I think it is very helpful if we try and explain that the most likely path for interest rates is that the [...]
Mullins: a man on a mission February 19, 2014 LAST year’s visit to Ballydoyle remains one of the highlights of my journalistic career, but yesterday’s return to the Emerald Isle may just have shaded it when it comes to my racing bucket list. Since a young age I’ve wanted to visit the corner of County Carlow that Willie Mullins calls home – and a [...]
BT’s clash over Sky Sports goes into extra time February 17, 2014 BT’S DISPUTE with BSkyB over the price and availability of Sky Sports on its YouView set top boxes will go into an epic eighth year following a court ruling yesterday. The Court of Appeal decided that the competition tribunal should re-examine its decision from August 2012, which stopped BSkyB being forced to offer Sky Sports [...]
Lloyds chief exec Horta-Osorio to get £1.7m bonus February 12, 2014 LLOYDS Banking Group chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio is expected to see his 2013 bonus hiked to £1.7m today. Osorio raked in £1.5m in performance pay for 2012, and is expected to see his bonus boosted for 2013, though the payment is likely to be delayed for five years. First reported by Sky News, Lloyds will reveal [...]
Inside Track: Jenkins should settle Barclays’ £50m fine so he can move on February 12, 2014 RAISE £6bn from investors and hand more than half of it back to employees and investors six months later: as a formula for managing a corporate balance sheet, there’s a certain novelty in Barclays’ approach. But for someone who has choreographed efforts to rehabilitate a company’s image as carefully as Antony Jenkins, this has been [...]
ITV’s The Only Way Is Essex gets a new home this year on ITVBe February 12, 2014 ITV WILL launch a lifestyle and reality television channel, to become the exclusive home of ITV’s award-winning show The Only Way Is Essex, aimed at a younger female audience when it launches towards the end of 2014. The new channel, called ITVBe, will be free on Freeview, Sky and Virgin, and will be supported by [...]
Lloyds increases bonus pool 10 per cent to nearly £400m February 11, 2014 LLOYDS Banking Group is to award £395m in bonuses to staff for 2013, 10 per cent more than it paid out a year earlier. A Sky News report claims the bank reached an agreement with UK Financial Investments (UKFI) yesterday. UKFI manages the government’s 33 per cent stake in the high-street bank. The deal, set [...]
Dubai launches drone delivery fleet February 10, 2014 The government of Dubai is leading the way in the use of drones to deliver essential items, according to reports from Sky News. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning to use the drones as part of a programme to improve government services. The four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles are will use fingerprint and retina identification [...]
Letters to the Editor – 10/02 – No more strikes, Falling giant, Best of Twitter February 9, 2014 No more strikes [Re: Politicians must end tube chaos, Friday] There is another way. In an era when huge ships plough the ocean, and vast aircraft fly the skies under the control of automated systems, just how difficult would it be to automate trains running along fixed tracks? Already US firms are trialling automated cars, [...]