Derek Bowden News Today

There is overnight construction lingering so we will look at raleigh and you see they have the shoulder closed due to the construction on i40 both directions between exit 293 which is u. S. 64 and 301 which is i440. But it should be picked up by 6 00. Other than that we have light volume and clear conditions, 40 and south saunders moving well. You see everything is green, no problems and we will check the drive times in a few minutes. John the naacp and local pastors are meeting today with attor...

Chief executive Derek Bowden says that the club has not ruled out the possibility of a second Town share issue, but is not something which will happen immediately.

Hibernian boss Tony Mowbray has ruled himself out of the running for the Portman Road managers job. The SPL club have released a statement outlining the former Town skipper and coachs position.

Chairman David Sheepshanks has revealed Tony Mowbrays reasons for ruling himself out of the running for the job of Town manager. Hibernian released a statement at lunchtime which announced Mowbrays decision to remain at Easter Road.

Colchester United have confirmed that they have refused Town and two other clubs permission to speak to their manager Phil Parkinson. The 38-year-old was amongst Towns preferred candidates to take over from the departing Joe Royle.

Preston have given manager Billy Davies permission to speak to Charlton Athletic. The Blues were interested in bringing the Scot to Portman Road but appear out of the running with Premiership clubs turning their attention towards the former Motherwell boss.

Town will play pre-season friendlies with Belfast side Glentoran and League One club Brighton and Hove Albion this summer. Boss Jim Magilton has been planning a game against a club from his home town for the last couple of seasons.

The Blues are reported to be the subject of two multi-millionaire takeover bids. Talk of a Town takeover first surfaced in a national newspaper over the weekend, but appeared to be purely speculation based on interest in other Championship clubs.

Former Town chief executive Simon Clegg has been appointed the chief operating officer of Baku 2015, the organisers of the inaugural European Games which the European Olympic Committees are staging in Azerbaijan in June 2015.

Towns season ticket sales are reported to have reached the 10,000 mark with more applications still to be opened. The overall total is now expected to be around 13,000, around 3,000 down on this season.