IT’S not a bad compliment when someone who regularly appears on the BBC, Sky Sports and Channel 4 credits you with helping launch their media career. Danika Priim is far too generous in putting her success down to a helping hand from me. The former Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Bulls and England rugby league player is […]
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FAREWELL then Raquel Welch. The actress and sex symbol died this week aged 82. I have to say when I watched the film One Million Years BC, I was more interested in the dinosaurs rather than Raquel in her iconic deerskin bikini. But that’s me. Give me a copy of National Geographic over Playboy every
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DID you see that John Cleese plans to bring back Fawlty Towers? The much-loved sitcom about a crazed hotelier, his bossy wife and a madcap group of hotel staff and guests, ended 44 years ago. But now former Monty Python star Cleese, who co-wrote and starred in Fawlty Towers with his then wife Connie Booth,
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FORWARD thinking, quick to embrace change and transparent and open in the way it operates. These terms are rarely used to describe the Jockey Club, the former regulator of British horseracing which is the largest commercial organisation in the sport in the United Kingdom. The London-based body, founded in 1750, owns 15 racecourses in England
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WELCOME to Linkedin Jesse Marsch. The Leeds United head coach joined the business networking platform this week. The American, who replaced the hugely popular Marcelo Bielsa at Elland Road in February last year, has gathered more than 8,000 followers in his first few days. He told them: “There’s so much football and business can learn
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