Ihtimal can make it four-in-a-row for Godolphin in Fillies’ Mile September 26, 2013 NEWMARKET’S three-day meeting got underway yesterday and today’s highlight is the Group One Fillies’ Mile (3.15pm). Godolphin have dominated this race recently with disgraced trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni taking the last two renewals and Saeed Bin Suroor winning it with White Moonstone in 2010. However, if the operation is to celebrate a fourth straight success [...]
Inside Track: More than one elephant in the Royal Mail sorting room September 25, 2013 IT’S NOT hard to identify the biggest of the elephantine threats to Royal Mail’s imminent stock market listing, which heralds the most contentious privatisation since the 1980s. With unions poised to ballot members over the prospect of industrial action within weeks, the prospect of a multi-day walkout at the precise time that the company’s shares [...]
Anglo settles its lawsuit and will sell Brazil mine September 25, 2013 FTSE 100-listed miner Anglo American yesterday said it has revised its sale agreement with Zamin Ferrous to sell its Amapa iron ore operation in Brazil, after a landslide in March that destroyed the mine’s infrastructure and killed six people. The firm had previously agreed to sell its 70 per cent stake in Amapa to international [...]
Miner Anglo American settles 23 lung disease claims September 25, 2013 Anglo American South Africa (AASA) has announced the settlement of 23 stand-alone silicosis claims, from the period 2004 to 2009 (release). The miner says that it is one of a number of companies facing class action litigation that involve thousands of former mine workers. AASA denies any liability and will continue to defend against those [...]
Lib Dem lines to take for interviews – in full September 19, 2013 The Lib Dems appear to have given journalists their full lines to take for every interview: Five things to remember for every interview This conference sees the party in a confident mood We have a strong record of achievement in Government Our priorities are jobs and easing the squeeze on household budgets Labour cannot be [...]
Lib Dem lines to take for interviews – in full September 16, 2013 The Lib Dems appear to have given journalists their full lines to take for every interview: Five things to remember for every interview This conference sees the party in a confident mood We have a strong record of achievement in Government Our priorities are jobs and easing the squeeze on household budgets Labour cannot be [...]
The Long View: The key to effective action? Don’t view the world in those nifty shades of grey September 12, 2013 SHADES of grey are fashionable – and not just because of those kinky books. If there’s one ideal that the modern intellectual class likes to celebrate, to praise in students and respect in authority, it is a fine, discriminating eye for picking out the full spectrum of grey on any issue. Monochrome thought is for [...]
Tatum can’t save presidential flop September 12, 2013 FILM WHITE HOUSE DOWN Cert 12a | By Simon Thomson Two stars WHITE House Down could have been the biggest movie of 1996. Wedged in between Nicolas Cage’s The Rock and Harrison Ford’s Air Force One, the premise of terrorists attacking the seat of American government would have blown the minds of the movie-going public. [...]
Class action vs BoA rejected in US September 5, 2013 A lawsuit accusing Bank of America of reneging on promises to help distressed homeowners modify their mortgage loans, and instead driving them into foreclosure, cannot proceed as a class action, a federal judge ruled yesterday. While saying borrowers’ claims “may well be meritorious,” US district judge Rya Zobel said they were too different to justify [...]
BoA Merrill to settle race suit August 28, 2013 BROKERAGE firm Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay $160m (£103m) to settle a class-action race discrimination lawsuit brought by a longtime US employee, an attorney for the plaintiffs confirmed on Wednesday. More than 1,200 current and former Merrill Lynch employees could be eligible to take part in the settlement, one of the largest sums obtained [...]