David McGinley, Chief Executive Officer of Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders, and Atlantic & Peninsula Marine Services has won Business Leader of the Year in the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards. The British Ex-Forces Business Awards, which took place on the 23rd of June, celebrates the achievements of ex-forces personnel who have forged a successfulContinue Reading
Heavy, persistent rains countrywide have left racecourses in a parlous state and, significantly, my best of the day, Income, was scratched this morning from a Windsor engagement tonight which is pleasing because to all intents and purposes betting horses on demanding turf surfaces is all about guesswork and I neverContinue Reading
Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has today called for the city’s COVID-19 key workers to be recognised for their service by being awarded the Freedom of the City of Plymouth. In a letter to Lord Mayor, Councillor Terri Beer and City Council leader Nick Kelly, Mr PollardContinue Reading
BELGIUM 0-0 PORTUGAL 4. OOOOOFFF PORTUGAL ARE LOOKING DANGEROUS! Renato Sanches spun his marker and drove at the Belgian defence before executing a perfectly weighted through ball to Diogo Jota. But the Liverpool winger didn’t set himself properly before shooting and ended up scuffing his shot. He should have doneContinue Reading
Exmouth RNLI would like to announce that the funeral cortege of long serving volunteer, Don Hodgkinson will be passing Exmouth Lifeboat Station on the day of his funeral to enable fellow volunteers and friends to pay their respects. Following on from our earlier press release, it has now been confirmedContinue Reading
Imperial Force looks an outstanding each-way punt for an eleven-runner ‘aged’ Novice Stakes over the straight six furlongs of ‘good to soft’ Windsor today, when enough boxes are ticked for this consistent, hitherto luckless Andrew Balding-trained Camacho gelding, placed five times from eight outings and back to his best distance,Continue Reading
Freedomwheels, Exeter’s well established disabled transport charity recently held a ceremony to name one of their vehicles after a well-known and popular volunteer driver called Jim Will. Sadly, Exeter resident Jim died after suffering from cancer. He had worked for Freedomwheels for over 30 years. He often drove the miniContinue Reading
There has been a total of 52 reported deaths from Covid-19 since the cyberattack on the Health Service Executive six weeks ago. As The Irish Times reports, daily death figures have not been published since May 13th, when the number of those who died in the State as a resultContinue Reading
Radical efforts to encourage partnership working among community projects in Plymouth have paid off creating a host of new relationships and an injection of tens of thousands of pounds of additional funding to the city. Plymouth Octopus Project – also known as POP – which supports the voluntary and communityContinue Reading
Catch Cunningham fits snugly into my daily modus operandi for an eight-runner Novice Stakes over five furlongs of Newcastle tapeta this afternoon, the sort of bet we traded on successfully during a golden spell of each-way doubles/trebles which paid off any debts and enabled several tozenhance financial status considerably; ‘untouchable’Continue Reading
