A year ago today, Britons were slowly starting to see the devastating impact of coronavirus. While the country was still months away from the peak of its first wave in April, the UK’s daily Covid death toll of just 10 saw the total fatalities almost double overnight to 21. Boris Johnson finally u-turned and banned mass … Read more
Tom Scudamore’s daughter, 14, will get to watch her father race at Cheltenham on TV from school after Boris Johnson had a word with her head teacher Margot Scudamore, 14, will be able to watch her father race on TV at school She had feared she would miss her father’s race a the Cheltenham Festival … Read more
Gordon Elliott’s horses could run at the Cheltenham Festival under a caretaker with disgraced trainer set to be handed a ban on Friday over shocking photo of him sitting on a dead horse Plan to allow a caretaker to take the licence at Elliott’s stable in County Meath Trainer faces a ban at an Irish Horseracing … Read more
REVEALED: Covid restrictions mean owners are set to be BARRED from next month’s Cheltenham Festival – with organisers still reeling from backlash from allowing 250,000 spectators into the 2020 showpiece Cheltenham has one of the lowest Covid-19 infection rates in the country However, national restrictions likely to remain in place when lockdown is lifted Irish … Read more
Elizabeth Day: To hug or not to hug? By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:02 BST, 20 September 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 20 September 2020 Styling: Holly Elgeti. Make-up: Nicky Weir using Hourglass Beauty. Hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using T3 Haircare. Dress, Mulberry. Jewellery, Daisy jewellery One of the many things … Read more
Thousands of punters have headed out to the first day of St Leger Festival for the pilot horse racing event, as the mayor of Doncaster warned visiting spectators posed a ‘major risk’. Around 3,500 people are expected to attend the start of the festival at Doncaster Racecourse today, which has been earmarked as a test … Read more
A police officer was caught in a sting operation at Cheltenham Festival by colleagues after stealing money from a lost wallet that was handed in to him, a court has heard. Matthew Rollason, 38, who served with Gloucestershire Police, was on duty and in uniform when he was given the wallet with two wads of … Read more
There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS’ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive horseracing committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse … Read more
A consultant working in intensive care has described the decision to let two Stereophonics gigs go ahead at the start of the coronavirus outbreak as ‘downright insane’. David Hepburn, who made the comment on Twitter, works at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport – which has seen one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in … Read more
Ministers are using mantra of ‘following the science’ as a defence to answer difficult questions about the coronavirus, Professor Brian Cox today claimed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other Number 10 officials have often remarked in response to the pandemic that they have been guided by the science. ‘The science’ Professor Cox referred to is … Read more