Sport Comment: World Cup has been huge credibility boost for women’s rugby August 17, 2014 IT IS the nature of our sporting world that football is the rich man from whose table every other sport has to eat the scraps, and so amid all the hoopla in the week of the resumption of the Premier League it has been particularly bad luck for English cricket and British athletics that their [...]
Sharman wins European silver as Britons surge to sprint finals August 14, 2014 Britain’s Will Sharman felt he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory despite picking up silver in the 110m hurdles final at the European Championships in Zurich last night. With the race in his grasp, the 29 year-old clipped the seventh hurdle with his trailing leg before his lead foot smashed into the next, with [...]
Farah regains European title as Dasaolu and Porter shine August 13, 2014 DOUBLE Olympic champion Mo Farah salvaged a crisis-ridden season by regaining his European 10,000m crown in Zurich last night as team-mates James Dasaolu and Tiffany Porter claimed their first major titles. Farah clocked a winning time of 28 minutes and 8.12 seconds to take gold in his first track race of the season as fellow [...]
Pavey rewrites history aged 40 with Euro gold August 12, 2014 EVERGREEN Jo Pavey proved age really is no barrier after becoming the oldest female to win gold at the European Championships by storming home in the 10,000m in Zurich last night. The 40-year-old took the lead with one lap remaining before holding off the challenge of France’s Clemence Calvin, an athlete 16 years her junior, [...]
International arm of Queen’s bank Coutts could be sold off by RBS for $1bn August 11, 2014 Royal Bank of Scotland is considering selling off the international arm of its private bank Coutts for as much as $1bn under pressure from the UK government, reports suggest. The 18th century institution famous as the bank of the Queen, could be split in two, with one part remaining headquartered in Britain, according to Reuters. [...]
Schumacher medical records theft suspect found hanged in his cell August 6, 2014 A MAN arrested on suspicion of stealing seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher’s medical records was found hanged in his cell in Switzerland yesterday. The unnamed man worked at air rescue company Rega, who transported Schumacher from a French hospital to one in Lausanne in June, and had denied any wrongdoing. Schumacher’s manager Sabine Kehm [...]
London has the third most millionaires in the world after Tokyo and New York July 23, 2014 More than a quarter of a million Londoners are dollar millionaires, even when you exclude the value of their homes – making the capital the third most popular city in the world for high earners. London has 281,000 dollar millionaires, not including primary residences, according to a global study from Spear’s and Wealth Insight. That [...]
Savers to get free impartial pension advice July 21, 2014 ALL OF Britain’s savers are to be given free and impartial advice about pensions investments, the government said yesterday, though it made a key change to the body providing the information. The advice will now be provided by organisations including the Citizens Advice Bureau, not pension providers themselves, as originally proposed by George Osborne in [...]
Apple preparing for iWatch launch with another high profile hire July 5, 2014 Apple appears to be gearing up for the impending launch of its iWatch with another high profile hire, poaching a senior executive from Swiss luxury watch brand Tag Heuer. Tag Heuer, part of luxury goods group LVMH, announced that vice president for sales Patrick Pruniaux will be leaving the company on Monday 7 July to join [...]
Roche agrees to pay up to £1bn for US cancer drug firm Seragon July 2, 2014 Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche yesterday said it had agreed to pay up to $1.725bn (£1bn) for US biotech firm Seragon Pharmaceuticals, which researches breast cancer. Roche, which dominates the field of breast cancer drugs such as Herceptin, recently won approval for two new treatments, Kadcyla and Perjeta. San Diego-based Seragon, which was bought by Johnson & [...]