Entrepreneurialawards aplenty November 14, 2012 MORE entrepreneurial talent was being celebrated over on Park Lane on Tuesday evening, at the 2012 National Business Awards. The 11th annual ceremony at the Grosvenor hotel was opened with a video message from Prime Minister David Cameron, and followed by a speech from Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury. Motivational speaking, not that [...]
A car you’ll be able to tell from Adam November 13, 2012 I’M STANDING in a hotel car park outside Lisbon and my head hurts. Forty different versions of Vauxhall’s new lifestyle city car, called Adam, are laid out in front of me and I’m not sure I particularly like the look of any of them. This, I suspect, is entirely the point – Vauxhall’s diminutive new [...]
BBC in crisis: This is no excuse to destroy a respected broadcaster November 12, 2012 IT BEGAN with anger at bankers, intensified during the MPs’ expenses crisis, and continued during the phone hacking scandal. Now the BBC finds itself at the brunt of a long-running mob mentality. This latest extension of the Saville Affair has seen the BBC’s director general George Entwistle resign, and senior executives set aside. It all [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]
BBC under fire November 12, 2012 THE BBC was thrown into disarray yesterday as it attempted to limit the fallout from the scandal that saw director-general George Entwistle resign over the weekend. BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, who appointed Entwistle to the top role at the corporation, said the future of the BBC was at stake if the broadcaster did not [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]
Profit hopes at Royal Mail pave way for float November 11, 2012 ROYAL Mail Group is expected to post a bumper set of profits tomorrow led by strong growth in its parcel delivery business – opening the door for a possible float of the state-owned business by government next year. The postal group, which increased operating profit after costs to £211m last year from £39m the year [...]
Wiggins coach Sutton injured in bike crash November 8, 2012 BRITISH Cycling has called on the government to do more to protect riders after head coach Shane Sutton suffered bleeding on the brain in an accident yesterday, just hours after Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins broke ribs in a separate bike crash. Sutton, who leads a team of coaches who work with Wiggins, is [...]
Wiggins hospitalised in crash with van November 7, 2012 BRITISH Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins suffered suspected broken ribs in a collision with a van while training last night. Wiggins was thrown from his saddle in the crash in Wrightington, near the north London-raised star’s Lancashire home, at around 6pm and taken by ambulance to hospital, where he stayed overnight. He is said [...]
Murdoch’s News Corp profits up threefold thanks to TV channels November 6, 2012 NEWS CORP revealed a trebling in profits last night thanks to growth in its lucrative cable networks division. Rupert Murdoch’s media giant said its US channels, such as Fox News, Fox Sports and the FX Network, saw a 33 per cent year-on-year increase in operating income in the third quarter. This was driven by higher [...]