Premier League’s £3bn TV bonanza June 13, 2012 BT shot into the lucrative world of Premier League football yesterday, splashing out £738m to share domestic rights with BSkyB as the cost of broadcasting live games rocketed by an eye-watering 70 per cent. Fierce competition for the rights, believed to have involved channels such as Al Jazeera and current holders ESPN, saw the price [...]
Mazda’s immensely likeable SUV June 12, 2012 Usually when a motoring hack is invited up to Scotland to drive a new car it is to test a sportscar or an SUV. The Scottish Highlands are the perfect combination of twisting roads and dramatic backdrops for sporting road cars, and provide off-road high jinks for rugged off-roaders on some private estate or other. [...]
How the British summer can put your head in the clouds June 11, 2012 Look out of the window. Chances are, it is raining. Just like it was yesterday. The British summer is in full swing, once again failing to live up to its early promise of sunshine and blue skies. The Met Office warns the weather is likely to remain “unsettled” for at least the next month – anyone [...]
TRAVEL NOTES June 10, 2012 Extreme dining, Belgian style Join the trend for “extreme dining” with a meal at a table suspended 50 metres above the ground. The Brussels version of Dinner in the Sky is running throughout June, giving 22 diners at a time the chance to enjoy gourmet food and champagne while suspended near sites such as the [...]
Wiggins defends Criterium title June 10, 2012 Britain’s Bradley Wiggins underlined his status as one of the favourites for this summer’s Tour de France by successfully defending his Criterium de Dauphine title yesterday. In a great race for Team Sky, the 32-year-old’s colleagues Michael Rogers and Chris Froome finished second and fourth overall.
I’d love to get one back on Cav at London 2012, says rival Goss June 6, 2012 AUSTRALIAN cyclist Matt Goss, who looks set to be the biggest obstacle between Mark Cavendish and road race gold at London 2012, has admitted he would love to spoil the Briton’s hopes of glory in his home Olympics Cavendish pipped his former team-mate to the top prize at last year’s world championship and Goss cannot [...]
City joins in with Jubilee pageant festivities June 5, 2012 THE DUST had barely settled and coffee machines had hardly cooled when City workers flocked back to their desks on Sunday to get a better – and drier – view of the Jubilee river pageant. Insurance firm Aspen were one of such group of revellers, hosting a party for more than 100 staff and family [...]
The movies to look out for this Jubilee weekend May 31, 2012 FILM PROMETHEUS Cert 15 | By Steve Dinneen *** So Alien prequel Prometheus has finally landed, 30 years after Ridley Scott first directed the universe’s most terrifying life-form. That’s a lot of time to gestate, especially in a world where alien offspring take just a couple of hours to burst from your chest in a [...]
TECH NEWS May 30, 2012 New poker app lands on Android and iOS A new app from PokerStars will let you show off you silky card skills – or give your cash to strangers – on the go. The slick app, which is available on iOS and Android, is easy to use and fiendishly playable. Former pro Victoria Coren played [...]
BEST of the BROKERS May 29, 2012 JOHNSON MATTHEY Credit Suisse rates the chemicals company “neutral” and has raised its target price by 50p to £24 to reflect its increased earnings per share forecasts for 2013-15. The broker now expects to see 19 per cent year-on-year growth in profit before tax. However, the broker prefers Belgian rival Umicore as its long-term materials [...]