Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Lui hoping Lady Luck will smile on Golden boy Vincent Ho January 22, 2019 YOUNG local jockey Vincent Ho has proved to be one of the success stories so far in Hong Kong this season. The former Hong Kong champion apprentice has been riding on the crest of the wave all season and currently lies fourth in the jockeys’ championship with 26 winners. That total reads all the more [...]
Trevor Steven: Wolves have Nuno Espirito Santo and super-agent Jorge Mendes to thank for their successful return to the Premier League January 22, 2019 Wolves are having a tremendous first season back in the Premier League. Currently eighth in the table and, with just 23 games gone, already nearing a points tally that should end any lingering worries about relegation; they have taken the momentum of their promotion campaign and maintained it in the top flight. Their impressive manager [...]
London needs micro-homes to solve the housing crisis January 21, 2019 Size doesn’t matter. When it comes to property at least, it’s all about location, location, location. Everyday, thousands of city workers (yes, I’m talking about you) are forced into excruciatingly long commutes from the outskirts of London, because living in the city centre – and, frankly, most of the capital – is simply unaffordable. Micro-housing would [...]
Mike Ashley enters talks to buy struggling music store chain HMV and eyes new PR team January 20, 2019 Mike Ashley is looking to strengthen his grip on the high street by entering talks to buy struggling music store HMV while searching for a new communications firm to oversee his expanding retail empire. The ambitious business tycoon, who has bought House of Fraser and Evans Cycles in the past six months, is bidding to [...]
Fulham 1-2 Tottenham: Five things we learned as Harry Winks’ late header wins it for below-par Spurs January 20, 2019 This was a match which summed up both sides’ seasons. Fulham played some exciting, expansive football at Craven Cottage yesterday; the visitors played some ordinary, limited football. Yet after 93 minutes the score read Fulham 1-2 Tottenham as Spurs turned around their mediocrity to snatch three points and the hosts capitulated embarrassingly to lose yet [...]
Focus On Peckham: The ‘hipster capital of south London’ saw impressive house price growth last year January 18, 2019 They say that if you want to spot the next up-and-coming property hotspot, all you have to do is follow the artists. That’s certainly been true of Shoreditch, the hub of the Young British Artists movement in the 1990s. Anyone that bought on the outskirts of the City 20 years ago is chuckling all the [...]
Gillette needs to sharpen up if it wants to stop ‘toxic masculinity’ January 18, 2019 You’re looking sharp. You’re looking good. You’ve come so far. Clean-cut, handsome alpha males do lots of photogenically masculine things. They hang out dressed in tuxedos, have their tie adjusted by their attractive girlfriend/wife, do a fist clench after a landline phone call at work, and show their young son how to shave and lift weights. [...]
Ollie Phillips: England’s exciting back line can trouble any team in crucial Six Nations January 17, 2019 Eddie Jones announcing his squad for the Six Nations yesterday marks the start of a make-or-break period for the England coach. England can’t feel their way into the competition, with defending champions Ireland up first in Dublin on 2 February, so Jones has named 35 fit and in-form players. With big challenges ahead in this [...]
Consultants ‘braver’ about challenging clients who treat women inappropriately, says PwC January 17, 2019 Advisers are “getting braver about…calling out our clients” who act inappropriately towards female consultants, a partner at PwC told a tech industry event in east London today. The partnership at PwC gets “incensed” when client chief executives shout at female partners, said Mads Thomson, who leads the the professional services firm’s technology consulting business in [...]
November rise in first-time buyers getting on the housing ladder January 17, 2019 First-Time buyers bolstered the UK mortgage market in November, as competitive deals and schemes such as Help to Buy boosted the number of young homeowners in the run-up to Christmas. There were 36,200 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in November, rising 5.8 per cent from the same month in the previous year, according to UK [...]