RACING at Happy Valley hosts its regular mid-week slot today, with a nine-race card featuring plenty of exciting and competitive handicaps. The action returns to the C+3 track, where in …
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Hard Work beating Meetingofthewaters in Grand National
WITH Cheltenham on the backburner for another year, attention quickly turns to Aintree and the Grand National. We didn’t do too badly with our ante-post tipping at Prestbury Park with …
Back Burke to hit the board in the Lincoln
WITH the dust having settled on last week’s Cheltenham Festival, it’s worth looking back at what was a fantastic four days racing. State Man took full advantage of Constitution Hill’s …
Low-productivity public services need ‘revolution’ to avoid cuts, Hunt says
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said public services needed to undergo a “productivity revolution” to ensure that the quality of public services did not suffer from a shortage of funding. In a …
Microsoft: Tech giant makes splash by tapping Deepmind founder to run AI division
Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s Deepmind, Mustafa Suleyman, to head up its new Artificial Intelligence division, the technology firm said this evening. Suleyman will join as chief executive …
Jimmy Ting heading to War on Wings of Amazing Duck
ONE TRAINER in desperate need of a change of fortune is Jimmy Ting, who presently is having a season to forget, with just four wins leaving him sitting at the …
A leading sports lawyer explains what the football regulator will and won’t do
The government has finally introduced the long awaited and highly anticipated Football Governance Bill, which will see the establishment of an Independent Regulator for Football (IREF) to oversee the men’s …
UK investors missed the global rally in 2023 as they dumped equity funds for bonds
Retail investors pulled more than initially stated from equity funds in 2022, but outflows slowed in 2023, according to data from the Investment Association (IA) and Deutsche Numis. IA’s figures …
One year on from Credit Suisse deal, $100bn UBS finally has the scale to take on Wall Street
Swiss banking giant UBS has reinforced its status as one of the world’s leading wealth managers after its market capitalisation sailed past $100bn (£79bn) shortly before the first anniversary of …
Why investors need to get used to lower cash returns from the likes of Rio Tinto, Glencore and BHP
According to a new report, after years of bumper dividends, investors will have to get used to lower cash returns from mining giants such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, …