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Mixed emotions for Lauitiiti ahead of World Club Challenge final
Leeds Rhinos’ most successful overseas player of all time, Ali Lauitiiti, is hoping to add to his impressive medal haul this weekend in what could be his final World Club Challenge. The 30-year-old second-rower is in his seventh season at the Yorkshire club, but with his contract up at the end of the year, he is [...]
Continue reading...Wakefield cancel Newton’s contract over drug admission
23. February 2010
Wakefield Wildcats have cancelled the contract of former Great Britain hooker Terry Newton after he admitted to taking a banned drug. Newton, 31, has also been handed a two-year ban from the sport after breaching Super League’s strict anti-drugs policy by taking human growth hormone (HGH). In a short statement, Wakefield said: "Following a UK anti-doping investigation [...]
Continue reading...Warrington Wolves 20-22 Wigan Warriors
23. February 2010
Wigan Warriors leapt to the top of the Super League after pulling off a dramatic comeback to beat Warrington Wolves 22-20 at the Halliwell Jones Stadium. An Amos Roberts-inspired Warriors side trailed 16-4 at the break but notched up 18 unanswered points in the second half and held off a late Wolves comeback to win an [...]
Continue reading...Crusaders 18-16 Hull
23. February 2010
Nick Youngquest scored a crucial second-half try to give Crusaders their first home win of the season as Hull saw their unbeaten start to the season go up in smoke. Brian Noble’s Crusaders, who thrashed Salford last week, won consecutive Super League games for the first time ever after wing Youngquest touched down after ten minutes. Lee [...]
Continue reading...Bradford Bulls 41-22 Castleford Tigers
22. February 2010
Bradford Bulls moved themselves off the foot of the Super League with a 41-22 win over Castleford Tigers at the Grattan Stadium. After losses to the Huddersfield Giants and St Helens the Bulls bounced back in fine style with a strong all round display that lifts them to tenth in the Super League. The Tigers sit two [...]
Continue reading...Wildcats forward Newton tests positive for banned substance
19. February 2010
Wakefield Wildcats forward Terry Newton has been suspended by the UK Anti-Doping Agency for failing a random drugs test. The Super League club have released a short statement confirming the positive test, which happened last November. "Wakefield Trinity Wildcats have confirmed that Terry Newton has been provisionally suspended by the UK Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for [...]
Continue reading...Quins and Saints claim first wins of 2010
16. February 2010
Harlequins grabbed their first win of the Super League season with a 16-4 win over the Catalans Dragons at the Twickenham Stoop. Harlequins went into half-time with a narrow 8-4 lead after centre Will Sharp scored tries either side of Clint Greenshield’s four-point reply for the Dragons. Quins stretched their lead five minutes after the break as [...]
Continue reading...Castleford 16-28 Warrington
15. February 2010
Warrington moved to the top of Super League thanks to a Lee Briers-inspired display at Castleford. The visitors came from 10-0 down in the first half to win through tries from Briers, Simon Grix, Chris Riley and a Richie Myler brace. Castleford had led 10-0 and then 16-14, but were unable to hold on in the second [...]
Continue reading...Warriors maintain good start to Super League
15. February 2010
Wigan Warriors kept up their winning start to the season with a 32-6 win over Hull KR at the DW Stadium. Amos Roberts got the Warriors off to the perfect start with a 3rd minute try before Martin Gleeson extended the lead with another four-pointer four minutes later. Hull KR steadied the ship after their nightmare start [...]
Continue reading...Six Dragons players arrested in Leeds
9. February 2010
Five players from French Super League club Catalans Dragons have been arrested following an alleged brawl in Leeds city centre, which has left two men in hospital, and nine in custody. The five players were detained by police while their team-mates returned to France following Sunday’s 28-20 defeat by Wakefield in their first game of the [...]
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FTSE down 0.4% by end of trade Thursday, as miners drag
Britain’s leading shares index the FTSE 100 was down 0.4 per cent at 23.31 points to 5,617.26 by close of trade Thursday. Miners dragged on the FTSE, as did Morrison WM Supermarkets; despite the firm announcing much better than expected results for 2009 earlier today. Among the miners Kazakhmys led the falls, down 3.17 per cent, while [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama: The time for talk is over on health reform
US president Barack Obama has said the "time for talk is over" on his crucial plans to overhaul the country’s healthcare system. Speaking to a crowd in Missouri, Mr Obama said it was time for Congress to vote on his proposed healthcare plans, which would see a trillion-dollar national health service introduced in the world’s richest [...]
Continue reading...Beckham insists Red Knights campaign is ‘not his business’
David Beckham has denied supporting an anti-Glazer family takeover of Manchester United despite draping himself in the movement’s colours at Old Trafford last night. The former England captain returned to Old Trafford as an opposing player for the first time last night since leaving United seven years ago as his AC Milan side lost 4-0 on [...]
Continue reading...Sahil Saeed has not been freed, Foreign Office confirms
Sahil Saeed, a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Punjab, has not been freed and is still being held by kidnappers, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said. A Foreign Office spokesperson told inthenews.co.uk that Sahil had definitely not been released, as had been claimed by a senior Punjab minister earlier today. Sahil was taken at gunpoint by [...]
Continue reading...Morrisons sees profits for 2009 up 30% beating forecasts
UK supermarket chain Morrison has seen its profits for 2009 surge 30 per cent, beating financial forecasts. The firm said like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, were up six per cent, with profit before tax at £858 million in 2009, compared to 2008’s £655 million. Underlying profits were up 21 per cent, the firm announced, at £767 [...]
Continue reading...BP announces deal to search for oil off Brazilian coast
Oil giant BP has announced today it has secured a deal to begin deepwater offshore exploration for oil off the Brazilian coast. The firm said it would pay US firm Devon Energy £4.7 billion for its Brazilian assets, as well as those in Azerbaijan and the US deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In addition, BP will sell [...]
Continue reading...HMRC accepts Portsmouth administration
Portsmouth Football Club are expected to learn on Thursday that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will accept the legality of the club entering administration. The south coast are still likely to face a nine-point deduction in the Premier League but will now avoid a winding up order after HMRC accepted that owner Balram Chainrai was legally [...]
Continue reading...Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim tops Forbes rich list
According to the Forbes rich list Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecoms bazillionaire, has pushed Bill Gates off the top spot as the world’s richest man. The list also showed that China now has more billionaires than any other country besides the US, while the Grosvenor family were the only UK-based billionaires to make it into [...]
Continue reading...De Niro to call plays as NFL coach Vince Lombardi
Oscar winner Robert De Niro is to play renowned American Football coach Vince Lombardi in a new big screen biopic, it has been confirmed. The Taxi Driver star, who won an Academy award in 1980 for playing real-life boxing champion Jake LaMotta, will star as the Green Bay Packers’ greatest coach in Lombardi, a new production [...]
Continue reading...Kaka asks for forgiveness after Lyon defeat
Real Madrid forward Kaka has apologised to the club’s fans after the big-spending club were knocked out of the Champions League by Lyon. The Spanish side crashed out Europe’s premier club competition after Miralem Pjanic’s late equaliser for Lyon, sending the French team through 2-1 on aggregate. Real Madrid spent £240 million last summer, purchasing the likes [...]
Continue reading...UK journalist accused of espionage by Hamas is freed
A British journalist accused of being an Israeli spy has been freed by Hamas after the Palestinian group held him captive in the Gaza Strip for the last month. Paul Martin was arrested in mid-February as he arrived in Gaza to testify in the defence of a Palestinian man himself accused of espionage. Hamas did not formally [...]
Continue reading...Three MPs and peer deny false accounting over expenses claims
Three Labour MPs and one Conservative peer have denied charges of fraudulent expenses claims as the political scandal of the decade finally reached the courts. Labour MPs Elliot Morley, Jim Devine and David Chaytor, as well as Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield, have been charged with 13 charges under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 for [...]
Continue reading...BA and union leaders reach stalemate over threatened strikes
Leaders for Unite and British Airways (BA) will be meeting later today to decide if, and when, strikes by cabin crew will be held. Union leaders have until March 15th to announce a date for strike action, and it must give the airline a full week’s notice before cabin crew can walk out over a long-running [...]
Continue reading...Felipe Massa looking for large Ferrari points haul in Bahrain
Felipe Massa is looking for a large points haul at the opening race of the season in Bahrain, following Ferrari’s impressive form during winter testing. The Brazilian makes a comeback to his race-seat with the Maranello-based team, having made a full recovery from the injuries he sustained from being struck on the head by a piece [...]
Continue reading...Heart patients being ‘failed’ by doctors over cholesterol levels
A study out today has claimed doctors are failing to lower heart patients’ cholesterol levels adequately, with women particularly at risk. According to research in the European Heart Journal only half of all patients at high risk of heart disease are given correct targets for lowering their cholesterol levels. The study, of 25,250 patients in Germany, investigated [...]
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26. February 2010
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