Splendent, with experience of three runs, ticks enough boxes for a solid each-way bet in the ten-runner Maiden Stakes over ten furlongs of Newcastle tapeta this afternoon when an eight-race card offers plenty of punting opportunities, the reason why this column is produced daily. Recently the ‘Good Ship Ross’ hasContinue Reading
ENGLAND can all but guarantee a place in the 2022 World Cup with a win over Albania tonight at Wembley. And ahead of the qualifier, William Hill are allowing new customers to back the Three Lions to win at 20/1. 1 This offer expires at 7.45pm tonight William Hill – EnglandContinue Reading
Almost 90% of the care-home workforce is already vaccinated. Prostock-studio The care sector in England is reportedly facing its worst staffing crisis ever. The UK government has launched a recruitment campaign to fill over 105,000 vacant posts. However, the government is also mandating from November 11 that care home workersContinue Reading
It makes sense that, until very recently, the best screen depiction of Diana was one where no one really played her at all. In Peter Morgan’s 2006 film The Queen, she is but a hurried figure getting into a car, chased by men on motorbikes. As we watch the RoyalContinue Reading
At the London Stadium on Sunday, November 7, the players of West Ham United and Liverpool football clubs gathered around the centre circle, arms interlinked. Falling poppies filled the big screen as former England team captain Trevor Brooking read John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, and a trumpeter played TheContinue Reading
The migrant crisis on Belarus’s western border has escalated rapidly in recent days, forcing Poland and Lithuania to declare a state of emergency and close the borders with their neighbour. With 15,000 Polish border security personnel on one side of the barbed wire fence and an estimated 4,000 migrants desperatelyContinue Reading
Corruption allegations have been flowing freely in the UK of late. To cherry-pick just some, an MP has resigned over his apparent conflicts of interest, a former attorney general has had his external business practices thrust into the public spotlight, the prime minister has been dealing with allegations about whoContinue Reading
I am just back from a short walk around the neighbourhood – it’s stopped raining earlier this morning but the wet was still dripping from the trees and the squirrels chasing each other shook loose that one drop that went right down my neck… I enjoy this time of yearContinue Reading
Exmouth RNLI volunteers were on a training exercise this evening (Wednesday 10 November 2021) when they were diverted to rescue a female who had fallen between Ness Cove and Labrador Bay near Teignmouth, Devon. At 8.03pm today Wednesday 10 November 2021, the volunteer crew of Exmouth RNLI all weather lifeboatContinue Reading
MARCUS RASHFORD says lack of education is to blame for the racist trolling he and other players get on social media. Rashford was targeted along with Manchester United teammate Jadon Sancho and Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka after all three missed penalties in the Euros final shoot-out against Italy in the summer.Continue Reading
