GETTING run over by a golf buggy wasn’t my finest sporting hour. It isn’t a story I’m eager to tell either. But memories of that infamous occasion came flooding back this week with news of the death of great Fleet Street sports writer and editor Peter Corrigan from cancer at the age of 80. You […]
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MY memories of Chris Meek, the racing driver and entrepreneur who died recently, prompted an email with some fascinating recollections from Robert Barr, whose family founded and ran motors and coach tour business Wallace Arnold. Robert led a management buyout of the coach holidays arm of the famous business backed by 3i. And one thing
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IF there is a better place to eat on a sunny day in Harrogate than La Feria, then I’d like to find it. (Please email invites to this address). The tiny restaurant serving Spanish-style chicken and tapas, nestled in a former antiques shop on a roundabout in the spa town, has made the move up
WHY TV companies persist with dull personalities like Alan Shearer and Michael Owen, I really don’t know. Shearer’s BBC documentary looking back at Euro 96 this week was so uninspiring that I switched over. Thank goodness then for a smattering of character elsewhere in sport. Smoking cigars during his round, the superbly-named American golfer Rocco
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The Sky Bet Football League season may only just have finished but there isn’t long to wait until a feast of football is served up at Euro 2016. Events business COPA has teamed up with independent corporate finance firm Sentio Partners and sports betting company Sky Bet to run a competition with a difference that allows
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