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Women’s Euro 2021: England’s hosting provides great opportunity for game’s growth and Lionesses to win silverware December 3, 2018 The announcement was expected, but the result still sparked excitement for those involved with women’s football in England. Uefa have confirmed that the Football Association’s bid to host the 2021 Women’s European Championship had been accepted. The fact there were no alternatives mattered little to the FA, which quickly trumpeted the news. “A home Euro in [...]
How to build a creative culture at your business December 3, 2018 Why is it that certain places produce explosions of creativity at moments in time? Nearly 20 years ago, London’s East End was the birthplace for grime music, with Wiley and Dizzee Rascal setting the pace for a cultural movement now led by artists like Stormzy. Pop art, punk, disco and hip-hop all exploded out of [...]
Football fan club Otro nets £50m backing from 23 Capital December 3, 2018 Digital football fan club Otro has received backing worth tens of millions of pounds from venture capital firm 23 Capital ahead of its eagerly-anticipated launch today. Online platform Otro, which provides fans with curated content from global football stars, today revealed it had secured backing following weeks of growing speculation about the new site. City [...]
Oldest ever Chivas Scotch commands 21k price tag at Sotheby’s auction December 2, 2018 A bottle of Chivas’s oldest ever Scotch whisky has fetched £21,780 at a Sotheby’s auction in London, one of four limited edition bottles made to celebrate Manchester United’s 1968 European Cup victory. The bottle, containing the oldest whisky ever made by the Highlands-based producer, is the only one of the four that has been put [...]
US judge seizes laptop of app boss who leaked Facebook info to British MPs December 2, 2018 The software company co-founder who released a trove of sensitive documents about Facebook to a parliamentary committee has been ordered by a US judge to turn in his electronic devices for inspection. San Mateo County judge V. Raymond Swope ordered Ted Kramer, the founder of Six4three – a now-defunct bikini-related app company – to pass [...]
Paris protests: At least 158 arrested after demonstration turns violent December 1, 2018 At least 158 people have been arrested after there were violent clashes between protestors and French police in Paris on Saturday. Riot police used tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades to quell protestors who attempted to breach security cordons on the Champs Elysees boulevard. It was the third rally in as many weeks as people took to [...]
Focus On Acton: This once ‘unloved’ part of west London is transforming thanks to the imminent arrival of Crossrail November 30, 2018 For some places in London, the housing market is a complicated beast; riding high in some streets, but not in others; a tale of two postcodes; a slow-burning demographic change subtly altering the character of an area; the promise of new transport links. In Acton, it’s more straight-forward; it was once an unloved pocket of [...]
Germany could face a tough draw in the Euro 2020 qualifiers after being demoted to pot two following abysmal year November 29, 2018 With the inaugural Uefa Nations League campaign over for the majority of countries, attention this weekend turns back to the more familiar European Championship qualification process. The Nations League has handed some countries an advantage for the Euro 2020 qualifiers, with group winners Holland and Switzerland now guaranteed to be seeded, but others have dropped [...]
No snowflakes here – time to get ready for the New Working Order November 29, 2018 Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to understanding the next generation that will shape our futures. United Nations data shows us that Generation Z – those born after 2000 – will account for 32 per cent of the global population in 2019, and when combined with millennials, over 50 per cent of the global [...]
DEBATE: Is there any point in having a televised debate over Theresa May’s Brexit deal? November 29, 2018 Is there any point in having a televised debate over Theresa May’s Brexit deal? Mo Lovatt, lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries and co-chair of The Great Debate, says YES. The message coming out of the Prime Minister’s office this week is that “people are bored with Brexit”, so it’s time to #BackTheBrexitDeal. The strategy is [...]