Midfielder David Beckham is refusing to get carried away with a successful season after England moved towards the brink of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.
The LA Galaxy star played an influential part as Fabio Capello’s men hammered Andorra 6-0 on Wednesday to close on a spot in South Africa next summer.
Capello’s team maintained their [...]

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Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — British Airways Plc, Europe’s third- largest airline, will cut more than 100 jobs at London’s Gatwick airport as it reduces services there by 15 percent from mid-2009.
The number of aircraft based at the airport will be reduced to 37 from 41, the Harmondsworth, England-based airline said today in an e-mailed statement. [...]

Cedric Pioline came from a match point down today to overhaul Greg Rusedski and win his first ever BlackRock Masters Tennis trophy. A packed Royal Albert Hall crowd watched enthralled as the Frenchman took three Tie-Break sets to overcome his dogged opponent in  6-7(4), 7-6(3), 11-9 [...]

A board of ten to twenty City professionals is to be drawn up to promote London as a world financial centre in response to the credit crunch and economic downturn.
The decision to create the new body, with the working title of the Financial Services Board, was taken in parallel by the City Corporation and a [...]

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The Government today announced that Michael Foot, currently Chairman of the UK office of Promontory Financial Group, will lead the independent review of British offshore financial centres announced at Pre-Budget Report 2008. The review will look at the immediate and long-term challenges facing British offshore financial centres in the current economic climate, including:

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A gang of thieves who targeted passengers on London trains has been handed lengthy jail terms.
British Transport Police spent hours painstakingly tracing the four men using CCTV before making an appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme.
The gang, all from London, targeted both commuter and Tube trains in their campaign of robbery and threats.
Within hours of [...]