Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget today, Luke Pollard MP said: “This Budget makes it clear the Chancellor is out-of-touch with the priorities of people in Plymouth. “Families in Plymouth and across the South West are going to struggle this winter: food prices are going up, gas and electricity prices areContinue Reading

Brides Bay represents a solid ‘professional special’ for a ten-runner six furlongs Novice Stakes on Chelmsford polytrack tonight; ‘next time’ went into my notebook after Richard Hughes’ charge finished a close, creditable fourth to Benefit over a similar distance on Wolverhampton tapeta five weeks ago. There is a trump cardContinue Reading

Slapps: the rise of lawsuits targeting investigative journalists

A type of legal action is increasingly being used by powerful people to shut down criticism from activists, academics, whistleblowers, and journalists. This is known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or Slapp. At the time of her assassination in 2017, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was facingContinue Reading

Exmouth RNLI volunteers were on exercise this afternoon when they were called to rescue a 16 year old kitesurfer in difficulty. At 2.09pm today Sunday 24 October 2021, the volunteer crew of Exmouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II were engaged in a training exercise off Exmouth Seafront whenContinue Reading

Percy Jones, a forecast 10/1 chance, will not be a surprise if causing one in the seventeen-runner Maiden Stakes over a mile of ‘good to soft’ Nottingham today; trainer Hughie Morrison is a shrewd cookie and must have had specific purpose sending this Sir Percy colt a long distance toContinue Reading

The Nineties: cassette tapes, Cool Britannia and… European conflict. Yes, there’s a rupture running through our kitschy, nostalgic idea of this decade: the Yugoslav Wars, which have since largely faded from memory, cost the lives of over 140,000 people, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice. But a newContinue Reading