Mark Thompson

Magnificent seven

Toolstation League Premier Division: Wellington 7, Manor Farm 2 WELLINGTON extended their winning run as they thumped Manor Farm at the Playing Field yesterday to leap above the Bristol side into third place in the table....

Vuma's world title hopes dashed

Vincent Vuma's world title hopes were dashed at the weekend when he lost his WBC international junior middleweight crown to Englishman Ryan Rhodes at 02 Arena in London. According to Vuma's promoter Branco Milenkovic who was at...

Field of dreams

In a continuing series leading up to the AFL national draft, meet a Kiwi who Kevin Sheedy took a punt on, although he had played less than four years of football. DANIEL McAlister still crosses a great divide to get to work,...

Editor-At-Large: Time to shake our civil servants from their feather beds

Twenty thousand people received their P45s last week and the predicted figure for unemployment is two million by Christmas. And, just to rub salt into the wound, in 2006 Gordon Brown taxed private pension schemes over a certain...

Educated Catholics have sown dissent and confusion in the Church claims bishop

University-educated Catholics are to blame for the crisis in the Church and the growth of secularism, according to the bishop charged with tackling the decline in Mass attendance. By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs...

DEBORAH ROSS: Fed up with Strictly Come Composting In The Sun? Never fear... TV's being cancelled

Alas, it is with great regret that the Non-Domestic Goddess Club has been asked to announce, on behalf of the broadcasting industry, that from the end of next week all television and radio in the UK will close down.

BBC chiefs to be quizzed over Jonathan Ross's salary in wake of Sachsgate affair

The BBC's two most senior figures will face tough questioning over Jonathan Ross's three-year £18 million salary in wake of Andrew Sachs obscene calls affair. By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media Correspondent MP says it would...

BBC to reduce spending on corporate hospitality

The BBC's much-criticised spending on corporate hospitality is to be "significantly reduced" as it seeks savings to meet a £140m shortfall over the next five years due to the economic downturn, staff have been told.Plans to...

007 James Bond techno gadgets: Which are real today?

Discover how SOA can create smarter outcomes for your business. Attend and learn: How SOA is helping leading companies to become more agile Where you should be applying SOA processes in your company Computerworld Live Podcast...

Waterstone's defend decision to cancel gay author event

A leading bookseller has said that it was "unwise" to go ahead with the launch of a gay poet's new book at a Cardiff store because of the threat of disruption from fundamentalist Christians. A spokesperson for Waterstone's told...