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 [...]
Cavendish takes the tour of Britain lead September 12, 2012 BRITAIN’S Mark Cavendish yesterday took the overall lead of the Tour of Britain by winning the race’s fourth stage for his second successive victory. The Team Sky rider said: “I’m really happy to have gone into the lead, and although I can’t see myself keeping the jersey, we’d like to keep it in the team.” [...]
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 [...]