Golf: Home-grown Mamat in position for historic triumph
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- Golf: Home-grown Mamat in position for historic triumph
- Spin doctor
- Interview: Ciaran Hancock: It’s his finger on the button at Channel 6
- Crowds greet Queen in Australia
- The Tesco Kid prepares to take on the world
- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Golf: Home-grown Mamat in position for historic triumph
Pakistan Dawn – Mar 12, 2006
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Golf: Home-grown Mamat in position for historic triumph
SINGAPORE, March 11: Singapore’s Mardan Mamat is on course to become the first home winner of the Singapore Masters after he pulled one stroke clear in a scintillating third round of the $1million event on Saturday. Having shared or held the lead since the tournament started on Thursday, 38-year-old Mamat, who has linked his impressive form to his vast knowledge of the course, continued to reign supreme as he offset two bogeys with four birdies to card a two-under-par 70. Fired up by a boisterous local crowd, the 2004 Indian Open winner blitzed through the front nine of the Laguna National Golf and Country Club with birdies on the first, sixth and ninth holes. The Singaporean carded another impressive birdie, this time on the daunting 563-yard 15th hole, before stuttering with bogeys on the final two holes either side of a rain-forced interval. Hot on Mamat’s heels is defending champion Nick Dougherty, who secured second place after digging deep to card a five-under-par 67 going into the final day of the one-million-dollar event, jointly sanctioned by the Asian and European Tours.
Spin doctor
Times Online – Mar 12, 2006
And this is the man who, in retirement, repeatedly dismisses one-day cricket (which has India in thrall) as detrimental to the skills of thegame, and consistently denounces as cheats Muttiah Muralitharan — “1,000 wickets? 1,000 run-outs, more like” — and anybody bowling the doosra, a delivery that he maintains cannot be purveyed legitimately. html”–>He also thinks the India team should be run by home-grown coaches rather than imports such as John Wright and Greg Chappell. Needless to say, he isnot the establishment’s favourite figure. Bedi, who runs a coaching trust in and around Delhi, has always liked what he sees with Panesar, although he feels that the England bowler’s action has deteriorated slightly since he first worked with him during an England Under-19 tour five years ago. “We had a session together,” Bedi recalls. “He expressed a desire to see me, and Tim Boon, the coach, brought him along.
Interview: Ciaran Hancock: It’s his finger on the button at Channel 6
Times Online – Mar 12, 2006
The founder of Channel 6, Ireland’s newest television channel, is under pressure to get home and attend to his sick children. The clock is also ticking down to the launch of a demanding five-year-old business project. Channel 6 goes live in only 18 days and Murphy and a small band of colleagues are in a race against time to have everything in place for a successful launch. “It’s scary but it’s exciting at the same time,” he says. His nerves are understandable. Murphy, a television veteran with 20 years’ experience, and Pat Donnelly, his business partner and a former advertising executive, have convinced some of Ireland’s best-known private investors to cough up €14m to put them on air. Its backers include ACT Venture Capital, once an investor in TV3, Delta Partners, the Barry family in Cork, and the Gowan motor group… ” It’s a fair point. Channel 6 will spend €2m this year on advertising, more than all the other channels put together. It also plans to spend the same amount on producing home-grown shows and will employ 25 staff in a new head office in Blackrock. About one quarter of its output will be Irish. Murphy confidently predicts revenues in its first year of between €4m and €5m and he expects the station to reach profitability by the early part of year four. With 13 channels already selling TV advertising space in a market worth about €200m, it seems a tall order, but time will tell. Murphy wants to grab a 3% share of the treasured 15-35s market initially.
Crowds greet Queen in Australia
BBC News – Mar 12, 2006
‘Not a farewell tour’
The centrepiece of the tour will be the opening of the Commonwealth Games in front of thousands in Melbourne. During the ceremony, the Queen will read out her message of welcome to the athletes, which has travelled to all 71 nations of the Commonwealth Games Federation during the past 12 months. Republican campaigners said the visit was an opportunity to reopen the debate about replacing the Queen with a home-grown president. “While the Queen is held in great affection by the Australian people, many Australians recognise that it is no longer sensible for us to have a citizen of another country, who visits Australia only occasionally, as our head of state,” said Allison Henry, national director of the Australian Republican Movement. The Queen last visited Australia in 2002 for the Commonwealth Heads of government Meeting in Queensland. BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt says Sunday’s arrival was deliberately low-key. The official formal welcome will be in Sydney on Monday.
The Tesco Kid prepares to take on the world
Times Online – Mar 12, 2006
The chain that claims more than 30% of Britain’s food sales and takes at least £1 of every £8 we spend on anything at all has also frustrated the government’s campaign to keep us healthy. It has ditched the proposed “traffic light” health warning scheme for food in favour of its own more detailed but less admonitory alternative. Only yesterday, it seems, Terry Tesco, as his pals call him, was the new John Browne of BP, Britain’s most successful businessman credited with taking a home-grown business and making it a global brand. So is it just our ingrained “can’t stand success” syndrome or has overwheening ambition turned Prince Charming into Shrek?. Born in 1956 to a working-class family — his father was a greyhound trainer — he lived in a prefab maisonette in the Lee Park council estate in Liverpool’s downmarket Belle Vale suburb with his three older brothers.
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – Mar 12, 2006
National police chief Abdul Kaiyum made the statement a day after security officials said the arrested leader of the Islamic radical group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had confessed to masterminding the blasts.