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Hostile to Growth

Hostile to Growth

Britain: a Culture Hostile to Growth This month Liz and I have had the fascinating experience of visiting the places where Winston Churchill – Britain’s wartime leader and its best-known statesman – grew up, lived and became famous, including Blenheim...

Rangers to appeal transfer ban

Glasgow – The administrators of crisis-club Rangers urged the Scottish Football Association to hold an “immediate” appeals process after they hit the Glasgow giants with a shock 12-month transfer embargo. Rangers were also fined a total of £160,000 by the SFA late on...

UK Athletics to fund athlete tickets

With just under 100 days to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games, UK Athletics has today become the first National Governing Body to announce it will buy tickets to ensure that British athletes’ families can watch them compete in every round in the Olympic...

Deed, Heslop top UK finishers in Reading

The Mizuno Reading Half Marathon, now in its 29th year, kicked off the second runbritain Grand Prix – which enjoys a Brits-only prize fund totalling £55,000 across five events – with 13,104 finishers crossing the line inside Reading Football Club’s...

UKA Board Appointments

UKA have today announced the appointment of two new Directors to the board of UK Athletics from 1 May 2012. Dr Sarah Rowell and Sarah Smart will join the Board of UKA following an open recruitment process as Non-Executive Directors. Smart will also chair the Board’s...