Britain’s Pooley just pipped to bronze in road time trial September 19, 2012 BRITISH cyclist Emma Pooley missed out on a medal by an agonising nine seconds in yesterday’s women’s individual time trial at the Road World Championships in Holland. Pooley, who won the title in 2010 and helped AA Drink-Leontien.nl win bronze in Sunday’s team time trial, finished fourth in Limburg. Fellow Briton Wendy Houvenaghel ended 14th [...]
A humanities education is the best preparation for a life of leadership September 18, 2012 THERE will always be a need for higher education to produce the experts essential to advanced economies. Scientists, engineers, doctors and lawyers are indispensable, and universities will always train them because there will always be the resources for training them. However, there is a curious blindness to the equally great need in our complex societies [...]
Twenty-four carat case for gold September 18, 2012 AS WARREN Buffett famously said: “You can’t eat gold.” But US dollars are not particularly nutritious either and neither are pounds sterling. However, the amount of food you can buy with your gold is steadily increasing, and has been for the last decade; whereas what you can buy with a wallet full of fiat currency [...]
Foreign truckers will be forced to pay to use roads in Britain September 17, 2012 FOREIGN truckers will be forced to pay to use British roads, under plans confirmed by the new transport secretary yesterday. Patrick McLoughlin said the measure is designed to redress the balance for UK hauliers, who must pay levies to drive through Europe. He told Sky News yesterday that “our companies are charged when they drive [...]
Transport minister affirms air plan September 16, 2012 THE NEW transport secretary yesterday insisted there will be no expansion at Heathrow during the current parliament. Patrick McLoughlin recently replaced Justine Greening, a vociferous opponent of a third Heathrow runway, and his appointment sparked talk of an imminent government U-turn. But McLoughlin repeated the coalition’s commitment to not work on expanding the close-tocapacity airport [...]
Euphoria of Federal Reserve boost waning as market fatigue creeps in September 16, 2012 COMPARING the Federal Reserve to a rehab clinic offering addicted investors a synthetic high has been a favourite of Wall Street wags ever since the first round of Fed stimulus nearly four years ago. The punch line is that you always need more and more to get the same high and each bout of euphoria [...]
Brit double for Tiernan-Locke and Cavendish September 16, 2012 DEVONIAN Jonathan Tiernan-Locke looks poised to complete a move to Team Sky this week after becoming the first homegrown winner of the Tour of Britain for 20 years yesterday in Surrey. Tiernan-Locke finished in the main pack to preserve his 18-second lead as fellow Briton Mark Cavendish, who is set to leave Team Sky, sprinted [...]
Pooley and Laws help land bronze September 16, 2012 BRITAIN’S Emma Pooley and Sharon Laws yesterday inspired AA Drink Leontien.nl to bronze in the team time trial at the road race World Championships in Holland. The team finished behind winners Specialized, who won the 34km race in 46 minutes and 31 seconds, and Orica-Greenedge who were in second but despite their performance are to [...]
Cavendish out of running in Tour of Britain September 13, 2012 TEAM Sky’s Mark Cavendish saw his chances of winning the Tour of Britain disappear as Dutchman Marc de Maar recovered from a late fall to snatch stage five in Stoke. Cavendish, who began the day with the leader’s golden jersey and a six-second lead over Australian cyclist Leigh Howard, finished almost 12 minutes behind De [...]
Sorry Spurs need to be opposed at the Madejski September 13, 2012 Reading Tottenham Sunday – 4.00pm ANDRE Villas-Boas had a nightmare introduction to the Premier League as Chelsea boss last season and that nightmare is showing no signs of stopping after the early rounds of this campaign. Tottenham had a tricky opening fixture at Newcastle and defeat to the Magpies was certainly no disgrace. However, since [...]