Having blazed with righteousness for so long, Arcade Fire have released the biggest damp squib of their career.

Germany’s MTU Aero Engines is to adapt its contribution to the EU Clean Aviation-funded SWITCH project to focus on heat-recuperation rather than steam-injection technology as previously planned ...

Yet after the positivity that accompanied news of his return to the club where he spent more than a decade between 2002 and 2013, the Scot’s first game in charge was something of a damp squib.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones ended flat, the S&P 500 down 0.2 per cent and the technology-focused Nasdaq shed 0.3 per cent. Cryptocurrency giant bitcoin is just ...

The phrase they need is “damp squib”. A squib is a firework. If it’s damp it won’t ignite. Nothing is more useless than a sparkler that won’t sparkle. Lovely listeners calling in to my ...

Crypto Daily - The inauguration of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States passed off without the merest mention of Bitcoin or crypto. After a spectacular rally into the event, the ...

Heavy rain and thunderstorms threaten New Year’s Eve events in Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay. Video / Finn Little, Sasha Dickie As a celebration, the usual enthusiasm for New Year’s Eve seemed to ...

or attended some kind of party that came with greater expectations than Charles Dickens could have dreamt of but — without fail — always ended as a damp squib. So apologies if I have little ...

It was already illegal to sell fireworks apart from sparklers to under-18s ... these to dust off fireworks metaphors and refer to a damp squib. But the government hasn’t even tried to light ...

You are led on and lured into believing that there’s more to this long-winding twin sister saga but it’s all a damp squib. For some strange reason, you pin your hopes on the big twist that ...

revisiting classic hits such as Firework — but a return to the fray that should have soared like a mini-rocket has so far proved a damp squib. Despite all that, 143 manages to avoid being an ...

IMAGE: Spectators shelter under an umbrella as covers are on the pitch at the Old Trafford Ground in Manchester, England. Photograph: Lee Smith / Reuters The decisive Twenty20 clash of the three ...