Why Boris owes me £90,000 for Olympic damage August 9, 2012 I HAVE hand-delivered a bill for £90,000 to the mayor of London. This is – give or take a few hundred pounds – what the Olympic Games have cost me in turnover since they began. And I have asked Boris Johnson to pay the bill personally, not from the seemingly limitless coffers that supported London [...]
Certify to enhance Godolphin’s fine recent record in the Sweet Solera Stakes August 9, 2012 TOMORROW’S Group Three Sweet Solera Stakes (3.35pm) is often used by trainers to find out where their two-year-old fillies stand in the pecking order and this year’s renewal looks well up to scratch, with four unexposed contenders putting their unbeaten records on the line in a field of eight. CERTIFY represents the Godolphin operation that [...]
MAN UTD KICKS OFF IPO WITH SKY-HIGH RATING August 8, 2012 MANCHESTER United is set to become a publicly traded company tomorrow after investors filled the order book for its shares, despite warnings from analysts that the stock is overpriced. City A.M. understands that there has been sufficient demand for the club to push ahead with its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, which will [...]
Sky appeal on sports upheld August 8, 2012 SKY could be free to charge its rivals higher prices for its sports channels after winning a competition appeal against Ofcom yesterday. The competition appeals tribunal found the regulator’s concerns over Sky’s dominance to be “unfounded”, paving the way for rules to be lifted on the amount Virgin Media and BT pay for Sky Sports [...]
Seven minutes of terror: Why Mars is the next frontier in the search for life August 6, 2012 NASA’S latest Mars explorer has landed on the Red Planet – and so have I (or at least my name has). The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, carried a microchip with the names of its mission supporters, of which I am one. This was my fourth landing on Mars, as I also landed with [...]
Our gold medals herald a golden age for UK sport August 6, 2012 WITH London 2012 in full swing, British sport is entering a golden age. Hosting an Olympic Games offers huge possibilities – increasing the profile of athletics in this country and building a gateway for all the aspiring young athletes coming through the system. Many young people watching these extraordinary athletes will be thinking “next time [...]
Hague warns over Syria crisis August 5, 2012 Foreign secretary William Hague said yesterday the situation in Syria is bleak, with a bloody escalation expected as Bashar Assad’s army beats back rebels from their stronghold in Aleppo in the coming days. Hague told Sky News: “This is, I’m afraid, the situation we warned about for a long time – that there would be [...]
IAG mulls stake in American to safeguard Oneworld alliance August 5, 2012 BRITISH AIRWAYS owner IAG is considering taking a stake in beleaguered US carrier American Airlines, according to the firm’s chief executive Willie Walsh. Taking a small holding in the firm in order to protect the Oneworld ticketing alliance is “something we are going to look at”, Walsh told the Financial Times. “If we can make [...]
Virgin Atlantic swings to full-year loss August 3, 2012 British airline Virgin Atlantic swung to a full-year loss as higher fuel costs and tough economic conditions took their toll, it said today The carrier, founded by serial entrepreneur Richard Branson, posted a pretax operating loss of £80.2m in the year to the end of February compared to a profit of £18.5m in 2010/11. The [...]
Cameron says Osborne will stay until 2015 August 2, 2012 GEORGE Osborne will remain as chancellor until the next general election in 2015, David Cameron insisted last night. In a bid to quash speculation that Osborne would be moved in his September reshuffle, the Prime Minister insisted that the chancellor had his “full support”. Pressed on whether Osborne would be chancellor at the next election, [...]