WHAT was your highlight of the Rio Olympics? I’m not asking because I’m interested, it’s just I think I’ve absorbed the BBC mentality of: if it’s not the Olympics then it’s not worth talking about. Even Carol the weather woman on BBC Breakfast was asked for her personal favourite highlight on Monday morning. God help […]
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THERE’S been a worrying feeling of autumn in the air for the last few mornings. So if there is one place to go in an attempt to celebrate summer and stave off a change of season, then it’s York Races. The annual Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival is a four-day extravaganza that brings together some
IT wasn’t very long ago that I was bemoaning the lack of eccentrics in modern society. Then I was introduced to a genuine, cast iron, rock solid, 24 carat one. At 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon Ed Wood will be watching the kick-off of Oldham against Walsall in Division One. Nothing unusual in that, hundreds of
YOU know it’s been a quiet week when the highlight is being followed on Instagram by a woman in her underwear in her profile picture. Actually, it’s not been that quiet, but that particular episode did add a rare frisson of excitement during a working week where everyone else appears to be on holiday. When
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