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Liverpool kick off January transfer window with £37m signing of Cody Gakpo

December 29, 2022

Liverpool have fired the starting pistol on an intriguing January transfer window by confirming the £37m signing of Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo. The Reds beat rivals Manchester United to Gakpo, who arrives on a five-and-a-half year contract from his boyhood club PSV Eindhoven. “There is a lot to like about Cody,” said Liverpool manager Jurgen [...]
EXCL – Majestic Wine’s CEO John Colley on why 2022 will go down as the year of fizz

December 29, 2022

Two years ago Majestic Wine went private, under the ownership of Fortress Investment. As a private entity, the company has enjoyed two years of transformation and the results have not gone unnoticed in the City: record growth and record sales. The Watford-based wine giant also opened a number of new branches and undertook a turn-around plan whilst [...]
Avatar: The Way of Water makes cinematic history at the box office

December 29, 2022

The new Avatar film Avatar: The Way of Water has taken over one billion at the global box office, becoming the fastest film to reach that milestone out of all the films released this year. Only a select few films have made a billion this year, with others including Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion. [...]
Sport business predictions for 2023 with Deloitte’s Tim Bridge

December 28, 2022

Deloitte’s Tim Bridge looks back on the last 12 months and makes his sport business predictions for 2023. The final whistle of the men’s football World Cup concluded an epic year for sport which included the Winter Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Women’s Euros, the Rugby League World Cup, as well as women’s World Cups [...]
The basic rules of wine etiquette: How to look suave this party season

December 28, 2022

It is a social season and wine is being popped, poured, sipped and slurped across London. I am a big advocate of enjoying your beverage however you see fit, but for those attending more than one fancy do this winter there are some basic rules of wine-etiquette the casual imbiber might want to know. Though [...]
Twixmas dining: The best restaurants to eat between Christmas and New Year’s Eve

December 28, 2022

We all know what we’ll be eating over the next couple of days – turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, consumed in quantities such that the effects will still be visible around your midriff come February. But what happens once the leftovers have been hoovered up on Boxing Day? While many restaurants remain closed, some central [...]
Best of 2022: England win Cricket World Cup to do double

December 28, 2022

Last month England lifted the T20I Cricket World Cup to become the first men’s side to hold both limited-overs trophies at once . Read our report from the final. Article originally posted 13 November 2022. England became the first men’s team to hold both the one-day Cricket World Cup and the ICC Twenty20 World Cup yesterday when [...]
Leeds United owner Radrizzani confirms plans to sell Premier League club

December 28, 2022

Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani has confirmed that he intends to sell the Premier League football club in the near future. US investment group 49ers Enterprises has been tipped to make it minority shareholding a majority one at the end of the current season. “Perhaps Leeds can grow further, but in the future they will [...]
Three Christmas TV shows to watch before New Year’s Eve

December 28, 2022

After days of eating, eating, then eating some more, nobody wants to think about what to watch. Which is why we’ve found three unmissable Christmas TV shows to put on while you’re in your food coma. No decision making, no scrolling, just watch these three and thank us later. Betwixmas – the odd No Man’s [...]
Women reveal what turns them on most about a partner’s bedroom

December 28, 2022

Tidiness is what turns women on the most in the bedroom when it comes to things that aren’t sex, according to new data revealed by bedding experts Pizuna Linens. They had surveyed women about potential ‘icks’ in the bedroom as well as the things they like most from sexual partners’ bedrooms and 81% said a [...]