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Britons are excited about the prospect of London 2012, but are afraid the government will botch the project. Opinion Research's poll of 2,000 adults before and after the Beijing Olympics has found that the majority are more excited as a result of the UK's medal...
By Mark PotterLONDON (Reuters UK) - J Sainsbury posted second-quarter sales towards the top end of forecasts, but its shares fell on talk of a stake sale by a major investor and concerns over shoppers switching to cheaper ranges.Shares in Britain's third-biggest supermarket group fell as much as 17.9 percent...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Tesco TSCO, the nation's No.1 retailer, announced a new low-cost range of products and price cuts on Wednesday, as it fights back against budget supermarket rivals that have eaten into its market share. Tesco said the new range of 350 goods, called...
TENNIS Laura Robson, Britain's Wimbledon junior champion, will take her first step on to the senior international ladder next week when she is named in the Women's Tennis Association world rankings for the first time. The 14-year-old Briton earned her place in the list by...
TENNIS Laura Robson, Britain's Wimbledon junior champion, will take her first step on to the senior international ladder next week when she is named in the Women's Tennis Association world rankings for the first time. The 14-year-old Briton earned her place in the list by...
TENNIS Laura Robson, Britain's Wimbledon junior champion, will take her first step on to the senior international ladder next week when she is named in the Women's Tennis Association world rankings for the first time. The 14-year-old Briton earned her place in the list by...
TOKYO AFP — Police on Wednesday released a British tourist who shocked onlookers by swimming naked in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace, concluding he had mental problems. The bald, heavy-set and visibly agitated man was chased by officers around the palace for two hours Tuesday. He dived...
More than 300,000 Britons who save with the Icelandic bank Icesave have been told they may have to wait weeks or even months to get their hands on their money, after the bank's parent, Landsbanki, went into receivership. Icesave, which has offered some of the most competitive...
News in brief COMEDY A comedy sketch in which a Filipina maid is shown being talked into having sex with a lazy Briton is causing diplomatic ructions between London and Manila. The British ambassador to the Philippines was summoned by the countrys Foreign Minister to explain...
World in brief TOKYO A bald, naked man who said he was a British tourist was arrested yesterday after going swimming in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace. He was eventually caught after a 90-minute chase that saw him climb the 8 metre-high palace wall, throw...
DUBAI AFP — A Dubai court will deliver its verdict on two Britons accused of having sex on a beach in the booming Gulf emirate on October 16, legal sources said on Tuesday. A hearing in the trial of Michelle Palmer, 37, and Vince Acors, 34, did not...
TOKYO AFP — A British tourist in Tokyo caused havoc on Tuesday after he swam stark naked in the moat around the Imperial Palace, one of Japan's most sacrosanct sites, television footage showed. Police seized the bald and portly man after a nearly two-hour chase in which he...
Byline: By DAVID MARTIN Sports Correspondent JO PAVEY believes she has finally seen off the health problems which threatened to prevent her switching from the track to a road-running career. The Commonwealth 5,000m silver medalist will never forget how she staggered over the line in her...
ATHLETICS Asked whether Jo Pavey had given her a hard time in the 13.1- mile half-marathon that boiled down to a sprint in the final 200 metres of the Great North Run yesterday, Gete Wami dealt with the query as summarily as she had ultimately done...
GOLF Sweden's Robert Karlsson won the Dunhill Links Championship after a three-way sudden death play-off at St Andrews yesterday. Karlsson finished tied with Germany's Martin Kaymer and Briton Ross Fisher after 72 holes but a birdie at the first extra hole earned him the victory. ...
Felipe Massa is thinking positively as he heads for this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji, aware that Formula One fortunes can be as fickle as the weather at the famous circuit. Having been handed a world championship lifeline when McLaren and Lewis Hamilton's appeal against the revised...
Mercedes-Benz motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug insists that he will not be drawn into making predictions as to when Lewis Hamilton might win this year's Formula One world championship, despite the Briton holding a seven-point lead with three races to run. Mindful that Hamilton - and, it must be...
Jorge Lorenzo was disappointed to miss out on the podium at Phillip Island on Sunday, despite prevailing in a thrilling race-long battle for fourth place. Lorenzo started from second on the grid but slipped to fourth on lap one. The factory Yamaha rider then traded places with Tech...
Why more and more of us want blue skies and sangria in old age RECORD numbers of Britons are leaving the doom and gloom of the UK behind to retire overseas, with a million waving goodbye every year. By 2050, 3.3million pensioners...
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