Len Anderson, known as Max, first picked up the microphone in Horchurch FC in 2002 and left it last on Easter Monday (April 21). “My first game in the PA system (Public Directorate) was against Wealdstone in August 2002, we won 3-0,” Max recalled. “It is simply used from there and I think we had approximately 900 games over the years. “I had looked back from day one.” Max saw for the first time the Horchurch FC reserve team played in 1993 and said he was “hooked.” In 2000 he joined the club’s committee and two years later he assumed…
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Time was, not long ago, when peripatetic music teachers would arrive at schools and taught talented children how to play instruments for free. But these days that privilege is only available for those whose parents can finance it. Connaught Brass plays the proms in ST Jude’s in the suburb of Hampstead Garden. (Image: Connaught Brass) And if they manage to enter the University of Music and emerge, their challenges to obtain a musical work, the humble independent work, not the dizzy heights of a regular orchestral work, they barely begin. Brexit will ensure that if they want to travel the…
However, together with common people, there will also be some famous faces among the 50,000 participants. The stars of the reality shows, the radio DJs, the musicians, the former players, the actors, the Olympic athletes and even the racing drivers will compete. If you go down to support or participate, you may want to take a look at the list to find who could be arriving at the big day. All celebrities who run the London Marathon 2025 Actors Adam Woodyatt – Actor, Easters Alexandra Burke – singer and actor Clara Francis – Actor Craig Parkinson – Actor, duty line…
Louise CullenBBC News or Agriculture and Environment correspondentBBCWilliam Sayers lost his arm after his coat was caught in a machine when he was 12 years oldA Tyrone County man has said that his dream of taking care of the family farm had gone in the “blinking of an eye” when he lost his arm in an agricultural accident.William Sayers was 12 when his life changed forever.Determined to finish that the suspension extended on the family’s Donemana farm, he was checking how the tank was filling when his unbuttoned coat was caught in rapid movement machinery.Agriculture remains one of the most…
Nalini Sivathasan and Tom BealBBC news researchBBC/The Postal Museum/Getty ImagesThe Post Office has paid more than 600 million public money to continue using the defective horizon IT system despite deciding to pass it more than a decade, the BBC can reveal.The terms of the original 1999 agreement with the Fujitsu computer giant mean that the Post Office has been trapped with the system and has not been able to build a replacement so far, a little after it contributed to one of the greatest abortions of justice in the United Kingdom.Former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair and other high -level…
Sean CoughlanReal correspondentGetty imagesKing Charles will be the host of about 50 veterans at a tea party in the Palace gardensKing Charles and Queen Camilla will organize a tea party at Buckingham Palace for war veterans as part of commemorations to commemorate Ve Day’s 80th anniversary.The king and queen will also be on the balcony of the Palace to see a Flypast and attend a celebration concert for the occasion, which marks the end of World War II in Europe.National commemorations and events will begin on May 5 of a military procession or 1,300 members of the Armed Forces.According to…
Eleanor LawrieSocial Affairs ReporterGetty imagesCompatible housing is in crisis, says the open letter (stock image)Compatible housing, which helps vulnerable or disabled people to live independently, is in crisis, an open letter signed by more than 170 organizations in claims in the sector.The services in one in three suppliers in England had to close last year, which adds to a total deficit of approximately 325,000 places, says the letter, which will be delivered to Prime Minister Keir Starmer today. The signatories include Refuge, AGE UK and the National Housing Federation (NHF).Kaging cuts to the financing of the council and the increase…
At the momentShareSaveShareSaveThe United Kingdom is likely to leave the plans to send thousands of troops to Ukraine, since the risks are “too high,” reports the Times. The newspaper says that Britain and the EU are expected to in military support to Ukraine can make Moscow move its red lines to achieve a peace agreement. The Times also points out that the United Kingdom is open to a youth mobility scheme “one in, one outside” with the EU.The Daily Telegraph leads its Ukraine coverage with “Starmer Trump Peace Plan” Challenges while Prime Minister Sir Starmer continues his support for President…
The Chancellor says that “understands what president [Donald] Trump wants to go “with his tariffs, before conversations with his American counterpart in Washington on Friday.Rachel Reeves said there were similarities with the way in which the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom had come to enhance the back of the frustration of voters with the economy.Speaking to the BBC Economics Faisal Islam editor before its meeting with the United States Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant on Friday, Reeves said the government was working “plans” to ensure a commercial agreement with the United States.Earlier this week, he pointed out…
Mark SavageMusic correspondentBBCYungblud says he fought with poor body image and eating disorders before taking boxing two years agoNetherlands, March 2025. Yungblud leaves his hotel in Amsterdam when a fan is approached in floods of tears.”You saved my life,” he sobbed.”No, you saved your own life,” he replies, in silence. “Maybe music was the soundtrack, but you saved your life, okay?”Leaning for a hug, he adds: “Don’t be sad, be happy. I love you.”It is a remarkable moving moment, full of compassion and ego of dark star or rock.Two weeks later, after a video of the match goes viral, Yungblud…
