Miami Heat's LeBron James secures minority share in Liverpool
The basketball star LeBron James has secured a minority stake in Liverpool after cutting a deal with the club's US owner.


Fenway Sports Group, which also owns baseball's Boston Red Sox, has struck an agreement with James's sports-marketing firm, LRMR Branding & Marketing, to be the representative for the controversial Miami Heat player around the world. In return James will become a minority owner in Liverpool. He said he was "excited to be affiliated with this incredible organisation" and looked forward to donning a red shirt and visiting Anfield
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/07/lebron-james-liverpool

Coca-Cola terminate its contract with Wayne Rooney.....

Wayne Rooney is the latest star to discover that exceptional performances on the pitch can easily undermined by regrettable performances off it.

Coca-Cola announced today that it was terminating its contract with the 25-year-old, thought to have been worth around £600,000 a year.
http://sport.uk.msn.com/msn-world-of-sport/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=156916797

Oliver has a way with words.....

'We don't want more people from Sheffield having cheap holidays': Why top Tory policy guru is against building new airports

Oliver Letwin's comments to Boris Johnson leaked.


David Cameron’s top policy guru has sparked anger after declaring that the government should do nothing to help ordinary people take holidays.

Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin told fellow Tories: ‘We don’t want more people from Sheffield flying away on cheap holidays.’

The comments were made in a private meeting with London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was pushing for the government to build new airports.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373025/We-dont-want-people-Sheffield-having-cheap-holidays-What-Old-Etonian-Tory-minister-told-Boris.html

Half a million people who currently claim sickness benefits are fit to start work immediately, a minister has suggested. Read more:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110403/tuk-500-000-on-sick-are-fit-to-work-6323e80.html

Anyone up for a game of footy` ?
This is an idea I had while watching the grandson playing football, loads of passion and enthusiasm!

A quick pencil doodle of the lovely Christina Ricci, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s. 

The University of Liverpool has become the first in the North West to recommend an increase in tuition fees to the highest level of £9,000 a year.

It follows Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, Exeter, Durham and Leeds in expressing its intention to set the maximum fee allowed by the government.
The university said the fee increase would enable it to ...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12775775