England

London’s Olympic stadium will receive a new roof under a £41-million contract to Balfour Beatty Group, with work planned to begin later this year.

The UK government will provide £10 million worth of funding to help cover the cost of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Depart.

English Premier League (EPL) club Arsenal has seen its proposals to increase the number of concerts held at the Emirates Stadium rejected by the council.

Formula One paid just £1 million in corporation tax in the UK in 2011 despite profits in excess of £300 million, due to a series of complex tax arrangements, according to The Independent.

English Premier League (EPL) club Cardiff City has reached a deal with Swiss-based financiers Langston over its long-standing £24 million debt.

Rugby Expo 2013 will be launching three new summits for this year’s event, which takes place on Novemeber 13-14 at Twickenham Stadium.

Executives of English Premier League (EPL) clubs Liverpool and Chelsea are reportedly not confident in UEFA’s ability to regulate new financial fair play rules aimed at curbing high levels of spending.

The Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) remains confident that its boxers will be able to compete at the World Championships in October despite being provisionally suspended from competitions.

English Premier League (EPL) football club Stoke City will provide free coach travel its fans to all away fixtures for the upcoming season.

The English Premier League (EPL) has criticised proposals to switch the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar from summer to winter.

The English Football Association plans to increase its annual sponsorship revenue of around £35m (€41.6m/$55.5m) by selling newly-created global and territory-specific international sponsorship packages in its next four-year rights cycle.

English Premier League (EPL) football club Manchester City has unveiled plans to expand the capacity of its Etihad Stadium by 12,000 in time for the start of the 2015/16 season.

Sport and entertainment agency Fuse has promoted its former head of international Louise Johnson to deputy managing director for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

Super League, England’s premier rugby league competition, will be reduced from 14 teams to 12 starting in 2015 after the league’s elite clubs agreed to key structural changes to the competition at their annual general meeting in Bradford.

English Premier League club Fulham is reportedly on the verge of being sold by owner Mohamed Al Fayed to Shahid Khan, the owner of National Football League (NFL) franchise the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Hugh Robertson, UK minister for sport and tourism, has been added to list of speakers at the Leaders in Football conference taking place on October 9-10 at the home of English Premier League club Chelsea.