CHAMPION jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot has been banned for a further six months after being charged with rape. Boudot, 29, was accused of rape by a female work-rider after a party in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France last year. He denies the claims. 1 Boudot has been banned from racing for a further sixContinue Reading
In a county full of fabulous hospitality businesses to be recognised for one award is a real honour but to be recognised in two different categories is a sign that a business has put in a great deal of hard work following a vision over several years. Dorset Forest GardenContinue Reading
Two outstanding fundraising projects by an Exmouth Restaurant have raised significant funds to go towards the purchase of crew clothing and essential locally based lifesaving training at Exmouth RNLI Lifeboat Station. Avid supporters of Exmouth RNLI, the highly regarded Point Bar & Grill Restaurant at Pierhead, Pilot Wharf, Exmouth raisedContinue Reading
Landermere provided a 22/1 shock first-up when beating our strongly-fancied ‘headline’ selection Parlando by a neck in Maiden Stakes over a mile of Kempton polytrack on Wednesday but a glance at the race time and subsequent computation left me completely and utterly bemused; I’ve never been a sore loser butContinue Reading
UPDATED: 3.45pm 11/2/22 Gardaí have appealed for witnesses and dash-cam footage after a 12-year-old boy died when the car he was driving collided head-on with an articulated lorry on Friday. The boy, named locally as Wictor Chojecki, from Newcastle West, Co Limerick, was driving a grey coloured Nissan Qashqai ownedContinue Reading
Europe relies on Russia for about 40% of its natural gas. Victoria Viper B/Shutterstock As frantic diplomatic efforts continue to avert a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s reliance on Russian gas supplies – and what would happen to them in the case of a war – remains an ever-present threat.Continue Reading
Arguments to suspend ECT are based on selective and poor-quality assessments of the evidence. Micolas/ Shutterstock Around 2,500 people in England receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) every year. This is a last resort treatment, used to help alleviate severe depression in people who have failed to respond to other treatments. ECTContinue Reading
VALUA STUDIO/Shutterstock The UK government has announced that its forthcoming online safety bill will require websites that publish pornography to verify users are over 18. Sites will need to adopt a method of age verification, such as having users provide their passport information. They will likely need to employ aContinue Reading
One of the key issues raised by the crisis on the Ukraine borders is the future of Europe’s gas supply. As talks have foundered over the past month, Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom warned of the low levels of gas in European storage facilities. The US and Europe, meanwhile, have threatened thatContinue Reading
MANCHESTER UNITED’S search for a midfielder will resume in the summer with Paul Pogba out of contract and question marks surrounding both Fred and Scott McTominay. A presence in the middle of the park is a priority after Wales striker Dean Saunders claimed Cristiano Ronaldo is ‘playing with dummies’ atContinue Reading
