Horse Racing Betting Tips: Stop fooling around and stick with Sir Dragonet in the Investec Derby May 30, 2019 ONCE again, trainer Aidan O’Brien appears to hold all the aces when it comes to tomorrow’s Investec Derby (4.30pm) as he bids to land the world’s most famous Flat race for a seventh time. The likes of Japan, Anthony Van Dyck and BROOME have all held prominent positions in the ante-post lists over the winter, [...]
Rolls-Royce: Engine issues still in focus after ‘storm of steel and iron’ falls from plane August 14, 2019 On a sunny, 30C-degree afternoon in Fiumicino, near Rome, residents of the airport town thought they were experiencing a sudden hail storm. But when witness Paola Di Lazzaro looked outside, she saw “a storm of steel and iron,” she told Italian newspaper Il Messaggero. Hundreds of shards of incandescent metal were falling down to earth [...]
Manufacturing titan Professor Lord Bhattacharyya dies aged 78 March 1, 2019 Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, the man who helped save Jaguar Land Rover from going under in the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, has died today. Read more: Jaguar Land Rover to make 100,000 cars in Slovakia Tributes poured in for manufacturing industry titan Bhattacharyya, whose personal friendship with Ratan Tata persuaded Tata to buy [...]
Farewell, Failing Grayling: Here are your five finest moments in office July 23, 2019 Any article written about transport secretary Chris Grayling over the past year has tended to start with a not-so-favourable adjective. “Embattled”, “Beleaguered” and “Failing” spring to mind. As of this week, Grayling – who is likely to be ousted as the head of the Department for Transport (DfT) when Boris Johnson enters No.10 – can [...]
British voters torn over President Donald Trump’s UK state visit in June April 29, 2019 With President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK in June already provoking fights between politicians, a new poll shows voters are as split as their Westminster representatives. Read more: Corbyn snubs invite to state banquet for Trump Just under half of the UK (47 per cent) is opposed to Trump's visit in June, according [...]
BT’s brand value drops as new boss prepares image overhaul May 21, 2019 The value of telecoms giant BT’s brand slumped this year as new chief executive Philip Jansen prepares to overhaul the company’s image. BT dropped two rankings to 10th place this year as its brand value, which is calculated as the net economic benefit its owner would receive if it licensed the brand in the open [...]
A third of UK energy to come from offshore wind by 2030, government says March 7, 2019 A third of the UK’s energy will come from offshore windfarms by the end of the next decade, the government said today as it signed a new deal with the industry. Companies will invest £250m to develop the supply chain, and increase global exports to countries including Japan and the US, fivefold under the new plan. [...]
Space, the investment frontier: The companies that are reaching for the stars July 24, 2019 When Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon 50 years ago, space was the exclusive domain of two superpowers. Now it has become perhaps the ultimate competitive arena for two tech giants — not to mention a host of other private enterprises that see untold promise and profits in reaching for [...]
Focus on Balham: The family-friendly outpost is now pricier than Wimbledon and Putney August 30, 2019 In the post-war era, Balham was mocked as the ‘Gateway to the South’ in that infamous Peter Sellers sketch sending up radio adverts for far-flung holiday destinations. The joke was that nothing much exciting happened there – it was an archetypal dreary suburb. How times have changed. It is now a fiercely sought after location [...]
Car industry investment grinds to a halt as Brexit uncertainty cripples sector July 31, 2019 Investment into Britain’s car manufacturing industry has come to a near-standstill, as companies divert hundreds-of-millions of pounds towards mitigating a potential no-deal Brexit which they fear will plunge the sector into chaos. Inward investment into the sector plummeted more than 70 per cent to just £90m in the first six months of the year, according [...]