Ever Given, third leg of our fabulous 300/1 trixie a fortnight ago at York, is napped again in the 22-runner Weatherbys 200,000 2-y-o Stakes over six and a half furlongs of ‘good to firm’ Doncaster today; seldom does one follow up a ‘star bet’ but this Tom Dascombe-trained Kodi BearContinue Reading
Exmouth RNLI volunteers were summonsed to search for a paddleboarder seemingly in distress in the River Exe this evening. At 6.55pm today Tuesday 7 September 2021, H.M. Coastguard tasked Exmouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II following a report by a member of public at 6.38pm of a paddleboarderContinue Reading
Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement on health and social care, Luke Pollard MP said: “There has been a real health and social care crisis for many years in Plymouth. Even before the pandemic waiting lists were spiralling beyond two million people with more people waiting longer and longer inContinue Reading
Glentaneous has an urgent mission in the ‘aged’ seven-runner handicap over ten furlongs of ‘good to firm’ Doncaster this afternoon; trainer Brian Meehan has booked ex-champion jockey Ryan Moore and his instructions will be explicit! Ryan will be told ‘win as far you can’ because Glentaneous needs to be upgradedContinue Reading
In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a US Air Force pilot made history as the first person to conduct a lethal strike with a modern drone – the Predator. In the months and years following that first strike, the droneContinue Reading
MEMPHIS DEPAY moved level with Holland legend Johan Cruyff on 33 goals for his country in a sensational 6-1 thrashing of Turkey at the Amsterdam Arena. The Dutch made the perfect start to the game when Davy Klaassen opened the scoring inside the first minute. 4 It was a specialContinue Reading
In the months after the 9/11 attack, which killed thousands of people and cost US$40 billion (£29 billion) in damages, the shock at the tower collapse gave way to the monstrous scale of the rescue and clean-up operation in New York. Amid the destruction, an improvised team of volunteers, firefighters,Continue Reading
Bumblebees are better at flying in wet conditions than other bees Simona Chira/Shutterstock This year will be remembered in the UK for its extremely heavy downpours. Intense summer storms resulted in some places exceeding twice their average rainfall. These wet summers make life even harder for bees, who are alreadyContinue Reading
PA Images /Alamy Boris Johnson has unveiled plans for a £12 billion-a-year tax rise from April 2022, to fund social care reform in England and to tackle the NHS’s COVID-induced backlog of cases. Demand for care – from short-term needs to long-term support – is rising and levels of unmetContinue Reading
What do you do with a young man convicted for being in possession of a bomb-making manual? A count of possessing information likely to be useful for preparing an act of terror can carry a jail term of up to 15 years. But 21-year-old Ben John wasn’t sentenced to prison:Continue Reading
