Showing posts with label Boxing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boxing. Show all posts
Saturday, June 27, 2026

HMO plan for Market Harborough's Bottom Club

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Stop sniggering at this story from HFM News  there. I shall explain.   Market Harborough used to have two working men's clubs in the tow...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Market Harborough's British heavyweight champion Jack Gardner

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Before Martin Johnson came along, the boxer Jack Gardner was Market Harborough's most famous sporting son. He beat Bruce Woodcock in 195...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

The Joy of Six 1339

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Anthony Painter explains how Britain's weak economy is limiting Labour's room for manoeuvre: "What is the difference between t...
Monday, June 17, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Man, 21, turned 'downhill' life around and now goes viral for teaching grannies how to box

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Well done to the Mirror for winning our Headline of the Day Award. The judges have again recommended a video to accompany this post. It...
Friday, January 05, 2024

A full episode of The Basil Brush Show with Mr Derek

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When Derek Fowlds was cast in Yes, Minister he was, as a secondary modern boy, apprehensive about playing a Whitehall highflyer, So he turne...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Six of the Best 947

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"We aren’t puritans. We aren’t miserable. We aren’t automatons. We are liberals. So why oh why is the party resorting to wringing its c...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Six of the Best 824

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Caron Lindsay went on yesterday's march demanding a referendum on the final Brexit deal. "At every stage of the Brexit process...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

The real Billy Elliot?

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Embed from Getty Images With the fact that today has been World Ballet Day, I thought of this photograph. Does it show the real Billy El...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Welsh Lib Dem councillor takes on Anthony Joshua

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Final prep for tonight’s #JoshuaParker bout - who’s your money on? @anthonyfjoshua or @joseph_carterUK pic.twitter.com/9X0Wm0fylb — Pr...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Alan Shearer: Football, Dementia and Me

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Embed from Getty Images He is a bit awkward, doesn’t have Gary Lineker’s ease and wit. But he’s serious, engaged and engaging, and proves ...
Sunday, April 02, 2017

Lib Dem beats Ukip by a knock out

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Embed from Getty Images Remember the chessboxing bout between Liberal Democrat activist and former Ukip MEP Jonathan Arnott that ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Lib Dems vs Ukip at chessboxing

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I have never been convinced that chessboxing is a thing, but I cannot resist this story from Politico : Forget Brexit, the big British b...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

BREAKING... Chris Eubank's Missing Trousers: Man Held

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Saturday, June 04, 2016

The greatness of Muhammad Ali and the decline of boxing

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In his pomp Muhammad Ali was just about the most recognisable man on the planet. Supreme as an athlete, he risked everything that had ear...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Harry Potter, martial arts and lesbian and gay psychology: A reminder

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Dr Martin Milton is giving a free public lecture on the links between courage, creativity  and mental well-being in Leicester this Saturday ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Harry Potter, martial arts and lesbian and gay psychology

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Dr Martin Milton is giving a free public lecture on the links between courage, creativity  and our own mental well-being in Leicester on 14...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Six of the Best 213

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SomeBeans refuses to be outraged at the proposal to allow NHS hospitals to obtain up to 49 per cent of their income from private patients...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Thriller in Vanilla

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Saturday As an enthusiast for the Noble Art, I was naturally distraught at the death of Smokin’ Joe Frazier. How well I remember his tri...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Six of the Best 151

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"Football like boxing or rowing is a game where the team that is leading at the first stage isn't always the winner at the end. As ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Swadlincote is sinking

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"The ground may be subsiding under part of the town, but the citizens of Swadlincote have unshaken faith in the future," says th...