BT adds rugby to its TV offering September 12, 2012 BT has secured a £152m deal for the rights to show Premiership rugby union matches on its TV service, in the latest aggressive move from the company after its shock grab of Premier League football rights. The four-year contract, which allows BT to show 69 live games a year from the start of the 2013-14 [...]
Cavendish takes second place September 11, 2012 ■ CYCLING: Team Sky’s Mark Cavendish yesterday won stage three of the Tour or Britain and is now second in the overall standings.
Cavendish kept from Tour of Britain victory September 10, 2012 BRITAIN’S Mark Cavendish was yesterday outsprinted by Leigh Howard of Australia in the pursuit of victory in the second stage of the Tour or Britain. The world road race champion, supported by Team Sky colleagues Bradley Wiggins and Luke Rowe, was unable to pass the Australian after appearing to get boxed in in the race’s [...]
Huawei to put £1.2bn into UK September 10, 2012 ■ Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is planning to invest some £1.2bn into the UK, creating at least 700 jobs on the way. Huawei, which is privately owned by its employees, a rarity in China, will invest around £600m directly and spend about £600m on procurement related to the investment, Sky News reported.
Retail boss: Red tape is worse than ever September 9, 2012 THE COALITION will today announce plans to exempt hundreds of thousands of businesses from health and safety inspections, as one of the country’s leading businessmen criticised the coalition for taking too long to start tackling red tape. Justin King, chief executive of Sainsbury’s, said the coalition’s decision to focus its efforts on economic growth after [...]
ECB’s bond buying bailout bluff is not tricking Germany September 6, 2012 THE risk of total euro breakup just got much worse. The Bundesbank dissented from Mario Draghi’s scheme for “unlimited” purchases of Spanish and Italian government bonds, provided those governments apply for assistance and surrender sovereign control of budgets to the EU and IMF. The Bundesbank regards the president of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) scheme [...]
More public spending is unlikely to multiply into stronger economic growth September 4, 2012 THE debate rages on about whether the chancellor should implement a Plan B, or C or D, or even Z. There’s a plethora of alternatives for George Osborne to choose from, but many of them share a key common theme: that an increase in public spending will boost overall output in the economy. This was [...]
Chancellor hints that Heathrow could still get another runway September 2, 2012 GEORGE Osborne left the door open for a third runway at Heathrow yesterday, saying that the government should “examine all the options” for boosting capacity. But he added in an interview with the BBC: “If building a new runway was simple, it would have been done over the last 20 years. It hasn’t.” Foreign secretary [...]
On the trail of the black rhino… September 2, 2012 THE LAST TIME I came eye to eye with the endangered black rhino was in Nepal. We had woken at dawn to paddle low-slung boats that barely crested the surface of the croc-infested river. And as we trekked through the dewy grass, the guide gave us the low-down on rhino-watching etiquette. “If the rhino hears [...]
Top flight clubs look to buy before 11pm transfer deadline August 30, 2012 PREMIER League transfer activity yesterday began to build to it’s traditional dramatic transfer window climax ahead of today’s 11pm deadline, with every club desperate to continue to strengthen to the last. A wave of momentum has built over the last 48 hours in the pursuit of myriad transfers that have both already been completed and [...]