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Alexandra Burke races to number one
Alexandra Burke’s latest single Bad Boys has gone straight to the top of the UK singles chart on its first week of release. The song, featuring US rapper Flo-Rida, has also become the fast-selling single of the year so far, according to the Official Charts Company. Bad Boys has already sold over 185,000 copies - more than [...]
Continue reading...Diabetes UK launches Get Serious campaign
19. October 2009
Diabetes UK has today launched the Get Serious campaign, which aims to raise awareness about the disease. The Get Serious campaign aims to get as many people as possible to sign up to show their commitment to get serious about diabetes. Diabetes UK is asking supporters to do something about diabetes, such as making lifestyle changes, organising [...]
Continue reading...Murray drops to four in rankings
19. October 2009
Britain’s Andy Murray has dropped out of the world’s top three players following Novak Djokovic’s tournament victory in the China Open earlier this month. The Serbian star beat Marin Cilic in straight sets in the final of the event on October 11, securing the required points to usurp Murray from his spot immediately behind world number [...]
Continue reading...BAA starts appeal over airport sale ruling
19. October 2009
BAA will be appealing against an order by the Competition Commission to sell three of its airports. A ruling by the competition chiefs in March ordered BAA to sell Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh or Glasgow airports within two years. However, BAA will be appealing to the Competition Appeal Tribunal under an argument of "apparent bias" against it. [...]
Continue reading...Home lending affordability to be ‘tested’
19. October 2009
Mortgage affordability will be tested by lenders under major reforms to the UK mortgage market announced today. But the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has called the reforms "ironic" given the need to encourage lending and the flow of mortgage finance to aid the beleaguered housing industry. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) set out the proposals under [...]
Continue reading...Strictly judges knock Joe Calzaghe out
19. October 2009
Boxing champion Joe Calzaghe has become the latest celebrity to be voted off Strictly Come Dancing. The Welshman and his dance partner Kristina Rihanoff ended up in the dreaded dance-off with actress Zoe Lucker and her partner James Jordan. All four of the show’s judges then decided to save Lucker, eliminating Calzaghe from the competition. Speaking afterwards, Calzaghe [...]
Continue reading...FTSE 100 jumps in early trading
19. October 2009
The FTSE 100 jumped over one per cent in the first hour of trading on Monday. At 09:00 BST, the London index had risen by 69.15 points to 5,259.39. Miners proved the backbone again of the rises – with silver miner Fresnillo gaining 3.52 per cent. Kazakhmys rose 3.26 per cent and Anglo American gained 3.11 per cent. Property [...]
Continue reading...Stars attend Stephen Gately’s funeral
19. October 2009
Emotional tributes were paid to Boyzone singer Stephen Gately at his funeral in Dublin on Saturday. His bandmates, Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham and Shane Lynch, all paid tribute to the 33-year-old. Keating also sang In This Life during the ceremony and told the congregation: "I have lost my brother. "Life will never be the same. [...]
Continue reading...NSPCC: Third of children feel distressed
19. October 2009
One in three children feels some emotional distress most of the time, an NSPCC poll has revealed. The charity has today launched a new online Childline service for vulnerable children, and has coincided the launch with its results from a recent poll. The poll found 32 per cent of 11 to 16-year-olds said they felt sad, depressed, [...]
Continue reading...Royal Mail recruits 30,000 temps
19. October 2009
Royal Mail has said it will recruit 30,000 temporary members of staff to deal with the upcoming strike action by postal workers. Industrial action is set to begin on Thursday October 22nd with mail centre staff and network drivers walking out. The following day delivery and collection workers will also take strike action. The Communications Workers Union [...]
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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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19. October 2009
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