This is a brief tale about one brave and determined man, Niki Lauda, who took himself to the top of the world in Formula 1 and then built a career in ...
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If you are going to call your restaurant ‘Paradise’, then it had better be good. I mean, even in London it’s not as if there are sco...
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The 102nd staging of the USPGA Championship will get underway at Harding Park in San Francisco on Thursday, just the third time it has been held in Ca...
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I am indebted to the Financial Times for the substance of this story. It has recently advised me that last year “was one of the best years on re...
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Michael Connolly is an American crime writer who lives in Los Angeles, where nearly all of his books are set. There are a fair few of them, too: 34 in...
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Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak (pictured on the home page), made a statement to Parliament. Yes, another one, as the Covid-19...
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So Liverpool are the Premier League champions; they have won their first league title since 1990, their first-ever of the Premier League era. Their c...
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The first book in the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter was Last Bus to Woodstock, published in 1975. The final one was The Remorseful Day, publi...
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For different reasons, Cannes on the French Riviera and Venice on the Italian Adriatic coast are two of the most alluring destinations in Western Euro...
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