New plans have been drawn up to save the summer sporting season with the Government ‘pushing hard’ to get stadiums and venues Covid safe before June, it has been reported. Officials are said to be devising new plans to make sure Wimbledon and the Euros go ahead this year such as home tests for fans in … Read more
Wimbledon is urged to sever ties with HSBC for failing to stand up for human rights in Hong Kong By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 4 February 2021 Major sporting events are under pressure to cut their ties with HSBC and Standard Chartered over … Read more
Millionaire houseboat tycoon, 60, ‘chased tenant with roofer’s tool shouting ‘I’ll break your f***ing head’ and slapped him with gardening gloves in row over £5,500 charges at west London boatyard, court hears Millionaire houseboat tycoon Myck Djuberg, 60, chased Klaus Beversluis, 52 Djuberg ‘sprung’ additional and unwarranted charges on tenant Mr Beversluis The 60-year-old then chased … Read more
AFC Wimbledon ‘considering Chelsea women’s boss Emma Hayes as their new manager’ – in what would be the first female appointment in Football League HISTORY AFC Wimbledon are considering an approach to make Emma Hayes manager The move would make her the first female manager in men’s senior football Ian Holloway, Sol Campbell and Joey … Read more
A black teenager has won £16,000 after a tribunal ruled Topshop bosses were racist for calling her ‘thick’ and she was ‘earning a lot of money for someone like her’. Shaniqua McKenzie, who was 16 at the time, was asked by her bosses at a Topshop in Wimbledon, London, how her grandma could afford to … Read more
How the Grinches stole Christmas! Moment gang of brazen thieves make off with 300 festive trees from seller’s yard as owner slams ‘sickening’ raid A gang of three thieves has been caught on camera stealing 300 Christmas trees Men caught on CCTV at yard at Pines and Needles in Wimbledon, south London Owner Josh Lyle … Read more
Southend United supporters outraged as crowd scenes for a new Vinnie Jones movie are filmed at Roots Hall while real fans remain locked out of football grounds Scenes for Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins were filmed at Roots Hall One stand was full of actors posing as fans, not observing social distancing Real matches at the … Read more
Wimbledon in line for £174MILLION insurance pay-out after All England Tennis club cashed in policy amid Covid-19 pandemic (which saw event cancelled for first time since the Second World War!) Wimbledon’s guarding through a pandemic is set to result in £174million payout All England Club will be largely unscathed despite the cancellation of event The figure, … Read more
British tennis facing £30m reduction in revenue after COVID-19 pandemic wipes out major events such as Wimbledon and Queen’s… resulting in 40% loss of LTA income The LTA’s loss of income will see an ongoing programme of cost cutting The AELTC is finalising its insurance claim for Wimbledon’s cancellation in 2020 There is hope that … Read more
MasterChef’s Marcus Wareing has insisted the hospitality industry must reopen in December or ‘it will be pretty grim, with mass redundancies’. But despite a second lockdown starting today, the TV chef, based in Wimbledon, told The Times that he refuses to accept any of his furloughed staff ‘moaning’. His restaurants, which reopened in October after first closing in … Read more