England must beware of Pakistan’s pace, but can claim the first Test July 28, 2010 ENGLAND vs PAKISTAN TODAY – 11.00AM SKY SPORTS 1 UNUSUALLY, England will host opponents that have played a Test series in this country more recently than they have when Pakistan head to Trent Bridge today. The visitors’ two matches against Australia ended in a creditable 1-1 draw which concluded on Saturday with a three-wicket win [...]
CITY HEADS OUT FOR A GLORIOUS WEEK OF RACING AT GOODWOOD July 27, 2010 HORSERACING fanatics in the City have abandoned ship again this week to head over to Glorious Goodwood, running all week until Saturday. Around 100,000 attendees are expected to descend on Goodwood over the course of the festival, with the Tote estimating its potential winnings at £2.75m from 300,000 bets. Schmoozing at the first day of [...]
THE TIPSTER July 26, 2010 ALTHOUGH recent traffic figures have revealed poor punctuality at budget airline easyJet, the company should be releasing its trading statement bang on time tomorrow. EasyJet will be looking to calm investors’ nerves and the airline appears to have overcome the troubles faced during air travel suspensions when the volcanic ash cloud covered the skies of [...]
BSkyB results are expected to smash through analyst forecasts July 25, 2010 BSKYB is expected to smash the market consensus when it announces its results this week. A surge in demand for high definition (HD) services in the wake of the World Cup will drive the broadcasters profits higher than forecasts. Sky is understood to have netted an extra 320,000 new HD customers in the last three [...]
Fall in love with lava in wild and woolly Iceland July 25, 2010 THIS year Iceland became infamous for the deeply inconvenient glacial eruption of “that” volcano – Eyjafjallajökull (pronounced “AY-uh-fyat-luh-YOE-kuutl-uh”). Its extraordinary qualities as a country were overshadowed by the chaos of grounded planes. Yet it is starkly beautiful and untamed, overflowing with adventure, history and plenty of volcanic action (brilliant to watch when it doesn’t spoil [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND July 22, 2010 FILM CITY ISLAND Indie comedy about a disfunctional family with Andy Garcia and Emily Mortimer. IVUL French arthouse drama directed by the artist Andrew Kotting. MY NIGHT WITH MAUD Classic drama by the late French director Eric Rohmer, re-released. DVD ALICE IN WONDERLAND Tim Burton’s disappointing take on the Lewis Carroll tale. THE GIRL WITH [...]
Brett Easton Ellis is back with a chilling seventh novel July 21, 2010 IMPERIAL BEDROOMS BY BRETT EASTON ELLIS PICADOR, £16.99 BY ZOE STRIMPEL ONCE part of the American literary brat pack of the 1980s that included Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz, Ellis is in many ways the most intriguing and – thanks to his famed use of violence in 1991’s American Psycho, about Manhattan yuppie serial killer [...]
EC lifts restrictions on Sky Italia July 20, 2010 The European Commission yesterday ruled that the competitive landscape in Italy had changed enough that Italian pay-TV service Sky Italia should be allowed to bid for a digital terrestrial TV frequency, removing a restriction placed on the satellite-TV company since 2003. The ruling came with the condition that Sky Italia, 100 per cent owned by [...]
No blue skies for the Nikkei stock market this summer July 19, 2010 DESPITE the bearish fundamentals plaguing the Japanese currency, the yen has proved remarkably resilient over recent months, boosted first by safe-haven inflows as a consequence of the European sovereign debt crisis and then from the deterioration in the US recovery. This strength in the yen has had a detrimental effect on the health of Japanese [...]
International Power in GDF merger talks July 19, 2010 BRITISH energy firm International Power (IP) confirmed it had revived merger talks with GDF Energy yesterday, sending its share price soaring. The companies have restarted long-running talks over France’s GDF buying up new shares in IP. Previous talks collapsed in January after the firms failed to agree terms. GDF, already one of the world’s largest [...]