Notting Hill Carnival 2019: Everything you need to know about London’s best summer parade August 24, 2019 Notting Hill Carnival is back this weekend and hoping to be better than ever. Here, CityAM provides you with everything you need to know about Europe’s biggest street festival. Last year around 2m people attended the annual event over the course of the weekend, which showcases London’s multicultural past and present. What is it? [...]
Oil prices slump as China hit US with crude tariffs August 24, 2019 Oil prices took a hit on Friday after China threatened to impose tariffs on US crude oil imports for the first time. Prices tumbled by almost four per cent to a two-week low on a day the trade war escalated. Read more: Trump announces tariff hikes as US-China trade war escalates The ongoing tension has [...]
Trump announces tariff hikes as US-China trade war escalates August 24, 2019 Donald Trump has hit back at China by announcing plans to increase the tariffs on imports by a further a five per cent. The trade war between the US and China escalated further on Friday, with China revealing plans to hit $75bn of US goods with duties. Read more: Trump tirade against China sends stock [...]
Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn sides with Emmanuel Macron on Irish border backstop August 23, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has said he agrees with French President Emmanuel Macron’s stance on Brexit in that the Irish border backstop is “indispensable”. Macron met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday and told the UK leader that the EU “will not find a new withdrawal agreement within 30 days that will be very different from [...]
League One side Sunderland in advanced sale talks with MSD Capital partners and Michael Dell August 23, 2019 US investors and partners at MSD Capital are closing in on an agreement to buy League One football club Sunderland. John Phelan, Glenn Fuhrman and Rob Platek, who are the most senior figures at MSD Capital, a private investment firm that exclusively runs billionaire Michael Dell’s fortune, are in advanced talks to buy the English [...]
Naomi Osaka getting back to her best as she bids to retain US Open title after ‘worst months of her life’ August 22, 2019 A relatively unknown entity outside of the tennis circuit at the turn of 2018, Naomi Osaka was still to crack the world top 40. She made that breakthrough in March of last year but it was at the US Open 12 months ago that she announced herself to a much wider audience. Having previously only [...]
Ireland may have peaked too soon as England World Cup warm-up looms August 22, 2019 There is only so long that a team can go on a winning run before they are inevitably undone and must return to the drawing board. Just ask England, who capitulated at last year’s Six Nations on their way to losing five successive Tests. Or Wales, whose 14-match winning streak was abruptly halted by England [...]
Wales show resilience to bounce back and beat England in physical affair August 19, 2019 For those who say World Cup warm-up matches should not count as Tests, this was anything but a friendly. More than 73,000 came to watch Wales beat England 13-6 on Saturday in a hugely physical battle at the Principality Stadium that saw tempers flare and the hosts become the world’s No1 side. Warren Gatland warned [...]
Sajid Javid pledges £600m to housing project building 50,000 new homes August 17, 2019 Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced plans to make £600m available to help a project building 50,000 new homes by investing in the necessary infrastructure. It is the latest spending pledge by the government ahead of a budget in the autumn in which Javid will set out the government’s spending and taxation plans for the next [...]
Tory MP Oliver Letwin rules out backing Jeremy Corbyn to be caretaker Prime Minister August 17, 2019 Sir Oliver Letwin has ruled out supporting Jeremy Corbyn to become a caretaker Prime Minister in order to avoid no-deal Brexit. The senior Tory MP said having Corbyn in charge would do more damage than leaving the EU without a deal would. Read more: Corbyn fails to drum up support for plan to block no-deal [...]
