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INEOS Automotive becomes new sponsor for British point-to-pointing
INEOS Automotive will be title sponsor of INEOS Grenadier Mixed Open Series Sponsorship will provide nationwide backing of 16 Mixed Open races and the Hunters’ Chase final at Cheltenham The rugged and uncompromising INEOS Grenadier 4X4 is set to launch in 2022 with reservations now open The Point-to-Point Authority, theContinue Reading
1,165,000 customers filed a tax return in the South West last year
More than 10.7 million customers completed their 2019/20 tax return by 31 January 2021 and 1,165,000 were from the South West, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) can reveal. The deadline to complete the 2020/21 Self Assessment tax return is 31 January 2022. Customers can complete it at any time up toContinue Reading
Prezzo Weymouth pledges to help feed vulnerable people and families on low incomes this Christmas
Prezzo Weymouth and Feeding Weymouth are working together to bring platefuls to those who need it the most this Christmas. As part of the “Love Every Moment This Christmas” campaign, Prezzo is celebrating local heroes who have done outstanding work over the last year to give them a chance toContinue Reading
F1 Qatar Grand Prix LIVE: FP2 underway, Verstappen faster than Hamilton in FP1 – results, stream, latest updates
TOO AGGRESSIVE Max Verstappen’s former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo reckons the Dutchman went too far by forcing Lewis Hamilton off-track in the Brazil GP. The racing world waits to see if Verstappen will be punished for his actions that saw both him and Hamilton veer off track. Ricciardo says Verstappen hasContinue Reading
Claims that COVID jabs can be used to track you with ‘luciferase’ are false – the substance isn’t even in the vaccine
Emerald Robinson, the White House correspondent for the conservative news network Newsmax, recently tweeted that Moderna’s COVID vaccine contains luciferase “so that you can be tracked”. “Read the last book of the New Testament to see how this ends,” she added. This claim, which was later deleted, echoes claims previouslyContinue Reading
The good ‘Doctor’ is all set to operate successfully!
Doctor Ken will be a major attraction this afternoon for the opening Maiden Hurdle over two and half miles of perfect ‘good to soft’ Ascot and given Kincardine is one of six rivals to Olly Murphy’s charge we might be able to back Aidan Coleman’s mount at odds-against! Kincardine isContinue Reading
Public advised to wear face masks at outdoor events as Covid surges
The HSE’s chief clinical officer has called on the public to wear masks in outdoor congregated settings such as sporting events. Dr Colm Henry also said that people did not have to go out every night just because bars, restaurants and nightclubs were open. Speaking on RTÉ radio, Dr HenryContinue Reading
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release may depend on the UK repaying its debt to Iran – but can it lawfully pay?
Richard Ratcliffe’s efforts to secure the release of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from Iran, where she has been detained for over five years for “national security-related” offences, have failed to bear fruit, despite his recent 21-day hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office. The sticking point, according to many observers,Continue Reading
What Star Wars can teach us about the decline of democracy
Stefano Buttafoco / Shutterstock Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away… democracy was in danger. Our current political environment is filled with threats to democracy, from the rise of authoritarian populism around the world, to the massive expansion of state power during the COVID-19 pandemic thatContinue Reading
Young Nazis: how I uncovered the close ties between British private schools and Hitler’s Germany
Pupils from a German 'Napola' at Ballenstedt before a football game with a visiting side from an English public school. Author provided In spring 1936, teenage schoolboy – and later war hero – Dick Hargreaves was given the chance to go on an all-expenses-paid exchange trip to Germany. But thisContinue Reading