Sunderland runner Les Arnott’s feet were killing him - the day after the London Marathon. But the keen athlete wasn’t feeling the effects of the 1991 run. He never got to take part after a motorbike ran over his toe on the eve of the race. Les was club secretary of Sunderland Harriers when he was in London in 1991. He was staying with team members at a hotel in Hampstead. To calm his nerves, he decided to pop out for a fish supper, but had his chips when he tried to cross a busy road. A bike...
19-year-old with Down's syndrome, Lloyd Martin has amazingly set a world record at the London Marathon after completing the 26.2-mile race with only five months of training.After several years of being turned away by sports clubs, his mom took it upon herself to train the young athlete.Upon completing the race, Martin was promptly awarded a certificate from the Guinness World Records for being the youngest in his disability category to finish the marathon. During a Good Morning Britain...
The U.K. army on Wednesday said they had recovered "a number" of military working horses after the animals broke free during a routine exercise.
Yesterday, Claire Casselton broke the Guinness World Record for Fastest Marathon Dressed as a Skeleton (female), in a time of 3:51:01 in a tension-fuelled finish leaving only 162 seconds to spare. Claire ran the iconic 26.2 mile race dressed in a skeleton costume to raise funds and awareness for the Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) and their #TeamBones campaign after her sister-in-law Carolyn was diagnosed with primary bone cancer last year. In her thirties and with a young daughter, Carolyn...
EASTENDERS viewers have spotted a major flaw as Honey and Jay left Albert Square to run the London Marathon. It came as the latest episode was dropped slightly later on the iPlayer today because fi
On Saturday night Madonna pulled in a record-breaking crowd of 1.6 million fans for an epic concert on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.
Natalie Campbell is the co-CEO of social enterprise Belu Water and chancellor of the University of Westminster
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On Sunday, competitors will race to see if they can break records that have stood for decades.
It’s a spectacular Saturday morning in Los Angeles — warm, with a generous breeze — and I’m on hour two of standing in a line of people stretching from outside a house in Hollywood to well down the block. Nestled above the street level, on a steep incline not far from Runyon Canyon, sits the 1924-era mansion known as the Blair Estate. The elegant property formerly belonged to Matthew Weiner, creator of “Mad Men” and a writer for “The Sopranos,” and architect Linda Brettler, his ex-wife. Now it’s...
Defence pursues a heated line of questioning with Stormy Daniels' ex-lawyer, who brokered hush-money deal.
A morning rush is nothing new for a coffee shop, especially not Starbucks. However, the global coffee chain recently found that its struggle to keep up with demand is leading some customers to second-guess purchasing their morning coffee. Starbucks just announced its financial earnings for the second quarter of 2024. Overall, its leadership was upfront in saying that the second quarter of 2024 was not a successful one for the business as a whole. The chain’s U.S. same-store sales declined 3%,...