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The Independent
18 minutes ago
- The Independent
Charlie Dobson shocks Matt Hudson-Smith as British stars shine at London Diamond League
Charlie Dobson shocked Matt Hudson-Smith as he edged victory in the men's 400 metres in front of a sell-out crowd at London Diamond League. Dobson won the Diamond League final last year and while all eyes were on Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, it was Dobson who swooped through to claim the win in a new personal best time of 44.14 seconds. He said: "I really enjoyed that one. I kind of set the race up slightly different to how I'd done previously. I got to 200 a couple of tenths faster than I would normally, I hope, obviously I haven't seen the splits yet. "I just got to the last straight and I felt really good. I thought I'd give it everything. I thought I'd catch a few of them, I didn't think I'd catch all of them." Asked if Hudson-Smith had any words at the finish, Dobson added: "He just laughed at me. I couldn't really say much either, to be honest. I was surprised. I'll chat to him after. He's an amazing competitor. "I love being able to race against him and I'll be honest, I love beating him." Josh Kerr was another expected to be among the winners but, although he ran a season's best of 3.29.37, Kenya's Phanuel Koech had the measure of the reigning world champion. Georgia Hunter-Bell produced a decisive finishing kick in the women's 800m, running a season's best of 1.56.74 to beat America's Addison Wiley, while Jemma Reekie (sixth) and Laura Muir (10th) were down the field. Morgan Lake claimed victory in the women's high jump with a leap of 1.96m but there was disappointment for Molly Caudery in the women's pole vault as the 2024 world indoor champion cleared 4.60m, some way short of even her season's best of 4.85m, to place fifth. Dina Asher-Smith posted her best time this year in the women's 200m, running 22.25 behind Julien Alfred, with team-mate Amy Hunt third in a new PB of 22.31. The first British quartet of Asher-Smith, Hunt, Desiree Henry and Daryll Neita came out on top in their women's 4x100m relay, running 41.69 seconds to beat second-placed Jamaica, with the second GB entry coming home sixth. The first men's GB team of Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchcliffe, Romell Glave and Zharnel Hughes ran 38.08 to finish second to a dominant Jamaican team in the men's 4x100m relay, with the second British quartet taking third. National 400m finals yielded victories for Lewis Davey (44.91) and Victoria Ohuruogu (51.22), with Seamus Derbyshire (48.82) winning a domestic men's 400m hurdle final. Lawrence Okoye had to settle for third in the men's discus with a throw of 67.24m behind Mykolas Alekna's meeting record of 71.70m, while the Netherlands' Femke Bol delivered a comprehensive victory in the women's 400m hurdles, as Britain's Lina Nielsen finished sixth. Noah Lyles was defeated in first 100m since winning gold in Paris last year, running 10 seconds flat as Jamica's Oblique Seville powered home in a time of 9.86. Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi set a new meeting record of 1.42 in the men's 800m, with Britain's Max Burgin taking third with a new personal best of 1.42.36 in a race that had been billed as a world-record attempt.
Telegraph
19 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Supermarket bosses attack Reeves's plan for fresh tax raid
Tesco and Sainsbury's have warned Rachel Reeves that plans for a £1.7bn tax raid on big shops would accelerate the decline of the high street. The intervention by the country's two largest supermarkets marks a significant escalation in the backlash against the Chancellor's plans for a shake-up of the business rates system. Retail chiefs fear will Ms Reeves will deal another devastating blow to Britain's struggling town centres. Ken Murphy, boss of Tesco, told The Telegraph that the move threatened 'investments in customers, colleagues and communities'. His comments are likely to fuel fears of fresh price rises, redundancies and another cull of shops as retailers look to offset swinging cost rises introduced by a cash-strapped Labour Government at the last Budget. The reforms will increase business rates for department stores, supermarkets and those with larger premises. Mr Murphy said: 'Increasing the burden on large shops would hinder rather than help our town centres. Many of these shops are anchor stores in their local communities.' Simon Roberts, the Sainsbury's boss, predicted that retail's big beasts would 'pull away from our high streets' as they sought to weather a jump in National Insurance contributions and minimum wage increases. The sector is also concerned about the potential costs of of Angela Rayner's Employment Rights Bill. Mr Roberts said: 'The changes being proposed will further increase the negative impact of business rates and won't stimulate the growth or investment into our high streets and jobs that we all want to see. The Government promised fundamental reform to level the playing field but the changes we are hearing about will not deliver this – they will not stimulate growth or investment.' Opposition is also mounting beyond the big grocers. Alex Baldock, the boss of electricals giant Currys, accused Ms Reeves of 'rushing' changes to the business rates system that will have widespread implications for retailers already grappling with a tsunami of additional government-imposed costs. Jobs at risk Over-burdened retailers are already grappling with 'a perfect storm' of 'extra costs and red tape', which is 'bad for jobs, investment and growth,' he said. 'The mooted hikes in business rates will just make things worse.' Mr Baldock warned that the overhaul would 'shutter more stores' and 'leave more gaps on the high street', as well as harming employment opportunities for young people. Thierry Garnier, the chief executive of B&Q's parent company Kingfisher, warned that the Treasury's latest tax grab would harm 'communities across the UK'. The Chancellor is expected to use her next Budget to ramp up business rates in a desperate attempt to plug a £5bn hole in the public finances created by abrupt about-turns on benefits and winter fuel cuts. As part of efforts to level the playing field, businesses with bigger premises will be charged more in order to reduce the rates paid by smaller stores. The effective discount is intended to target online retailers and save independent firms, ministers contend. Last month, the British Chambers of Commerce warned that tax rises are 'paralysing' British businesses. One in three companies were cutting jobs to weather the £25bn National Insurance raid, it said. 'Larger physical stores, which support more jobs, should not be penalised through a higher multiplier,' Mr Garnier said. Pub bosses protest The hospitality industry is also braced for further pain with pub bosses queueing up to express their disquiet last week. Simon Emeny, the chief executive of Fuller's, said pubs were already labouring under 'a ridiculously disproportionate' £25bn business rates burden. Sir Tim Martin, the boss of JD Wetherspoon, complained that pubs were already having to contend with a 'ferocious tax disadvantage '. The sector maintains it is unfair that pubs pay VAT on food sales while supermarkets do not have to, enabling them to sell alcohol at a discount to pubs. Meanwhile, the Government's own analysis shows that the impact of the planned reforms will be felt far and wide from hotels, restaurants and theatres to cinemas, theme parks and even zoos. At the same time, only a fifth of those are warehouses used by internet retailers. In a speech to prominent City figures attending the Mansion House dinner in London on Tuesday evening, Ms Reeves claimed 'Britain is better off under Labour'. A Treasury spokesman said: 'We are a pro-business Government that is creating a fairer business rates system to protect the high street, support investment and level the playing field. 'To deliver our manifesto pledge and provide certainty and support to the high street we intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality and leisure properties from next year.'
BBC News
19 minutes ago
- BBC News
Lowry left 'gutted' by Royal Portrush return
Former champion Shane Lowry said his Open Championship at Royal Portrush had been "hard to take" after a shooting three over in his third round on world number 18, who lifted the Claret Jug when the championship was last staged at the Northern Irish links in 2019, was assessed a two-stroke penalty after his second round on Friday and returned to the course the next day suffering from a virus."To be honest, I'm gutted," said the Irishman. "I wanted to do well so badly today and this week. I put so much into this week that, yeah, it's hard to take."The annoying thing for me today is I didn't get to enjoy today as much as I would have liked - Saturday at The Open in your home country, I should enjoy it a lot more than I did, just because of how I felt."Lowry, who said he "was not too keen" to discuss the penalty incident for a second time, birdied the 13th on Saturday to get back to level par for the championship but followed that with a quadruple bogey on the next hole and dropped a further shot at the said his illness contributed to a "lack of energy" in the closing stretch of holes."Honestly, every bathroom I went in and tried to throw up, I couldn't," he added."It's just such a bad feeling. I think lack of energy towards the end maybe did me in."Look, I don't want to make excuses. It is what it is. It's just really bad timing, obviously."
