Here’s everything that happened in the sixth episode of The Apprentice November 11, 2016 This week’s Apprentice sent the final 12 on a wild goose chase around London in a classic task – the treasure hunt challenge. They were given all night to find every object on a list, which shouldn't have been too hard considering London is now a 24-hour city. Perhaps a more difficult challenge before the advent [...]
Liverpool 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1: No regrets over team selection, insists Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino October 26, 2016 Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino insists he harbours no regrets after his much-changed side were dumped out of the EFL Cup by eight-time winners and quarter final-bound Liverpool. Spurs slumped to their first domestic defeat of the season as striker Daniel Sturridge rediscovered his goalscoring touch with a double strike, while Vincent Janssen’s successfully converted penalty [...]
Opec remains positive on output cut as oil crashes to $44 November 4, 2016 With markets rattled and oil prices tanking after being bombarded on a variety of fronts, Opec has attempted to bring some calm to the market regarding its optimism that it will be able to reach some kind of a deal. But will the market buy it? Oil prices this week took a tumble on the back [...]
A week in rugby: Anthony Foley super-charges Munster, Danny Cipriani suffers from lack of kicking duties, and Leicester Tigers rediscover their bite October 24, 2016 Thomond Tribute Glasgow had no chance of winning against Munster on Saturday; the men in red could never have allowed it. The electricity of Thomond Park flowed with a current even more vigorous than has come to be expected from one of the sport's most iconic venues in Munster’s 38-17 win, a week after the [...]
Supermarket wars: Sainsbury’s move to eat rivals’ lunches could turn sour September 28, 2016 British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s recently changed the terms of its lunchtime meal deal offering – much to the dismay of many customers. It decided to remove its more expensive “taste the difference” sandwiches from the deal, and has rebranded the lunchtime option to “on the go”. The move was met with bewilderment on social media [...]
Shane Williams interview: Legendary Wales wing on how long-distance running filled the gap left by his rugby retirement February 22, 2017 After a 17-year career spent flying past and sometimes crashing into men nearly twice his size, Welsh rugby legend Shane Williams could have been forgiven for taking a breather after finally calling it a day. It notoriously took the diminutive Welsh winger a number of attempts to quit the game before he hung up his [...]
Mercedes GLK 250 review: We travel to Bahrain, the Monaco of the Middle East, to test drive Mercedes’ junior SUV May 3, 2017 It’s appropriate that Bahrain should celebrate high-octane sports; it was here that oil was first discovered in the Gulf, after all. Fireworks explode in a riot of colours overhead as Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari takes the Bahrain Grand Prix’s chequered flag, followed by Lewis Hamilton six seconds later as the sky above the grandstands erupts. The [...]
Black Friday UK 2015: 1 in 5 ecommerce websites including John Lewis, Boots, Boohoo and Argos went down before 9am this morning November 27, 2015 UK retailers’ online shops are buckling under the strain of Black Friday, with one in five crashing before most of us had finished our morning commute. Argos, Boots and Game were among those that had downtime before 9am, showed data from commerce agency Ampersand. The agency is tracking what websites are currently live, showing how [...]
The Last Guardian review: 10 years in the making, Fumito Ueda’s new game is a flawed work of genius December 13, 2016 Playing The Last Guardian is like booting up a fondly half-remembered game from your childhood. Almost 10 years in the making, Japanese designer Fumito Ueda’s follow-up to his elegiac PS2 titles Ico and Shadow of the Colossus comes with a monumental weight of expectation; its protracted development – only snippets of which were glimpsed over the years [...]
Ford engineers have invented these three crazy contraptions to make life in the city easier September 22, 2016 It used to be Silicon Valley types who were obsessed with innovation – but it seems the bug has spread, after car giant Ford unleashed some of its engineers' craziest inventions. The company said it had set engineers a challenge: create a device which helps people handle city life. It received more than 4,500 submissions [...]