Showing posts with label Athletics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athletics. Show all posts
Saturday, September 27, 2025

"The Flying Scotsman": Ming Campbell's athletics career

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Embed from Getty Images Athletics Weekly marked the passing of the former Liberal Democrat leader Ming Campbell with a short article on his ...
Monday, September 02, 2024

The Joy of Six 1264

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"Psychologists, however, are all too aware that people are reluctant to change their minds and that, when it happens at all, it occurs ...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Little Bowden Police Station and Magistrates Court - and my political career

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This attractive building stands in Northampton Road, Market Harborough, and the Prison History site gives you its early history: In the Nor...
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Sunday, November 12, 2023

Tom and Bill Hartley provide our Trivial Fact of the Day

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Embed from Getty Images England named their squads for their 50-over and T20 cricket internationals against the West Indies next month. Incl...
Friday, August 18, 2023

The history of the cinder track in Welland Park, Market Harborough

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When I posted a USAAF aerial photograph of Market Harborough during the war, I noted the large oval in Welland Park and asked if it was a lo...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Scottish ultra-marathon runner blames injury and jetlag for using car in race

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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Guardian for its coverage of an interesting innovation in distance running.
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Monday, June 28, 2021

GUEST POST Why the Progressive Alliance is irrelevant in Batley and Spen

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Matthew Pennell says those arguing for a Progressive Alliance in the Batley and Spen by-election don't understand the seat. I’m a massi...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Six of the Best 944

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"The substantive way to improve lives of working class people is through making their work better-paid and more secure, and to reduce t...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Six of the Best 661

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What will Brexit mean for your favourite sports team? Tim Wigmore explains. Milton Keynes is 50 years old. Stephen Bayley asks if we s...