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Farah, Ennis athletes of 2012

Olympic Champions Mo Farah (coach: Alberto Salazar) and Jessica Ennis (Toni Minichiello) have today been voted athletes of the year by the British Athletics Writers’ Association. Farah and Ennis collected the top prize this year after their exploits at the London 2012...

New York to Decide WMM

New York, NY – With Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai enjoying an insurmountable lead in the men’s 2011-2012 World Marathon Majors Series as the result of victories at the 2011 Boston and ING New York City Marathons, and the 2012 BMW Berlin Marathon, the...

Peter Eriksson appointed

UK Athletics has today named Peter Eriksson as the newly appointed Olympic Head Coach. Eriksson, who will move on from his role as UKA’s Paralympic Head Coach with immediate effect, has worked for the governing body since January 2009. As Paralympic Head Coach he...

Pensioners Face Retirement Tax Bill

Increasing longevity adds up for pensioner households, MetLife analysis shows The average UK pensioner household faces a £111,400 tax bill in retirement as increasing longevity means pensioners are living on average up to 19 years past the age of 65, new analysis from...

Germany Lured into a Trap

The FT explains how European Central president Mario Draghi has lured Germany into a trap which makes it virtually impossible for that nation to stop financing the Eurozone no matter how profligate it continues to be. The “Club Med Bank” (as I dubbed it last year when...