West Lothian Clarion (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It has been very difficult narrowing down the nominations, but we have a very strong shortlist for Ride of the Year 2009, as voted by you. Please email me your vote at mball@matthewball.co.uk from the shortlist below (each entry has a link to the story behind the nomination) The winner will be announced at the Christmas Social and annual prize giving Only West Lothian Clarion members get to vote. Deadline...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Scotland international Simon Taylor is set to be sidelined for two months after undergoing surgery on a torn bicep.
Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Stade Français have suffered a blow following the news that injury-plagued Simon Taylor will be out for eight weeks due to a torn bicep.
McCabism (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
[After Williams signed Alain Prost for 1993, and declined to meet Nigel Mansell's contract demands, Mansell] raved to the tabloids about how unfair it all was, but received rather less sympathy from the English specialist press, whom he had thoroughly alienated in an interview with L'Equipe , in which he described us as 'corrrupt' for our unwillingness to rank him with Senna or Prost. Given that Mansell's...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
From Pyr-o-mania : Helen Edwards, Rights Director at Transworld UK, has sold US rights in two historical vampire novels by UK novelist Jasper Kent for a good five-figure sum in US dollars. World rights in the novels, which open with Jasper’s debut TWELVE, published very successfully in the UK by Transworld in January 2009 (it is the second-highest-selling trade paperback debut novel right across...
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Helen Edwards, Rights Director at Transworld UK, has sold US rights for the first two historical vampire novels by UK novelist Jasper Kent. World rights in the novels, which open with Jasper’s debut Twelve (the second-highest-selling trade paperback debut novel right across UK publishing in 2009), were acquired by Simon Taylor from John Jarrold in [...]
EDD Blog Online (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Well, it is great to join my colleagues David West and Dipesh Patel in the ranks of CommVault bloggers. I've been ruminating over this inaugural post for the past two months while I've been presenting at our nationwide Innovate8 information and data management road show. I've engaged in so many great conversations with customers and prospects about information governance, risk, compliance and eDiscovery,...
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
An oil supply crunch may be looming Simon Taylor, founding director at Global Witness, talks with Stacey Vanek-Smith about his organization's report, which says oil supplies are drying up fast. Stacey Vanek-Smith: The price of oil has been climbing in recent weeks, topping $80 a barrel this morning.... A group called Global Witness spent two years preparing the report called "Heads in the Sand."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
• US light crude oil futures pushes above $79 a barrel • Report blames government for ignoring supply problem World oil prices hit their highest point for a year yesterday, as a major new report urged governments around the world to take drastic action to head off an approaching oil supply crunch. US light crude futures pushed above $79 a barrel, supported by the view that a recovering world...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
• Chiefs from major sports to tell Wada plans are failing • Rules on recreational drug use 'grossly disproportionate' Plans to make sportsmen and women provide details of their daily whereabouts to drugs testers are "suffering a slow death", players' chiefs from the major sports will tell world anti-doping authorities this week. The Professional Players' Federation, which represents...
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It seems wholely unreasonable ro implement rules that require WADA to know the whereabouts of players at all times. Regular spot testing for drugs with...
St Gothian Sands NR (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
Still quiet on the reserve at the moment with nothing but the odd Dunlin and Green and Common Sandpipers . Simon Taylor saw six Wheatears there today.
CultureQueens (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Take a gander at hunky coverboy James Haskell for the new Dieux du Stade Calendar 2010! The special 10th Anniversary Edition of the calendar was shot this year by famed fashion photographer Tony Duran. On the calender's cover is 24 year-old James Haskell (view his gallery after the jump), an English Rugby Union player who currently plays for Stade Français in the Top 14 and internationally...
Ashley H Photography (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009
A great morning Sea Watching this morning. I managed only 1 lifer (Great Skua) and failed to get onto a Great and a Balearic Shearwater, shame but there's always next time (Although it would have been nice to have had Common scoter, BT Diver, Sooty Shearwater etc.) Thanks to Steve and Sam for letting me borrow your scopes. Picture thanks to Simon Taylor... Now off to save up for Steve's Leica Scope....
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
HUGO Southwell will join Simon Taylor on the sidelines tonight, and for the first month of the new season, as the French Top 14 season kicks off.
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
Stade Francais have suffered an injury blow on the eve of the new Top 14 season after Simon Taylor broke his foot.
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