Former BBC rugby commentator Alastair Hignell, 52, forced to take early retirement earlier this year due to the effects of multiple sclerosis, is to b…
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Month: December 2008
Olympic cut-backs? Sport has never had it so good
Even the under-achievers in Beijing, such as UK Athletics, came away from Wednesday’s grant announcements with near-parity with what they had r…
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Journalists’ Carol Service
BBC political editor Nick Robinson, Gillian Tett from the FT, Stephen Glover and Chris Boffey are among the guest readers at this year’s Journa…
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Rugby magazine goes online to save money
A rugby union magazine is moving from print to online because of the decline in advertising revenue.…
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Football writer Barclay lands transfer to Times
Paddy Barclay, football correspondent at the Sunday Telegraph since 1996, has landed a big-money new year transfer to The Times in the newly created r…
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Australia win again – 100 years on
From Philip Barker at Wembley Rugby’s finest gathered at Wembley last night to celebrate an era when the game was still part of the Olympic Gam…
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All Herald staff made redundant
Just when you thought that things could not get any worse working in newspapers, all the staff at the Herald group of newspapers in Glasgow – Th…
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Mair and Knight go at Telegraph; Buckley leaves Obs
Lewine Mair and Tom Knight, specialist sports correspondents at the Daily Telegraph for more than a decade, are the latest casualties of wide-ranging …
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Olympic broadcast row opens the way for Sky
Talks between the International Olympic Committee and the European Broadcasting Union over the rights to cover the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia,…
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Sports freelancers forced to pay the price
Freelances in other sports are understood to be in the same boat, each contributing, in terms of loss of earnings, a widow’s mite to facilitate…
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