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Away and dry your eyes. Clear handball offence upon review, penalty given. THC

Nae luck Jambos ;) 'mon the Hoops! THC

I have a coffee subscription with Union Coffee and receive two bags - 400g - of single estate light roast beans each month. I grind and use them in a Melitta filter machine when working from home. When on the road I'll usually find a decent independent - I find the quality is always better...

There were three recounts in total - eight hours from opening ballot boxes to the presiding officer confirming the result. THC

My father was a Met driver from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. He told me that he regularly took 'A' stock above 70mph on the outer sections of the main line north of Rickmansworth. THC

The Lib Dems' reasonable performance in running Chelmsford City Council gives them a credibility and a track record that carried over to the county elections here. Coupled with their success in retaining control in Brentwood, this augurs well for their chances of controlling the new Mid Essex...

Not that surprising. Dan Swords, the council leader, has a high profile locally on the back of attracting regeneration funding and inward investment to Harlow. Reform's anti-immigration schtick might land well with the hard-of-thinking but it's no substitute for a track record of actual...

In news from south west Hertfordshire... The revolving door keeps turning at Vicarage Road. Watford have parted with head coach Ed Still (Will's brother) after yesterday's final game of the season, a 4-0 home defeat by champions Coventry City. Will (ha) the new coach see out the close season...

On the platform at Harwich Town. Apologies if it's been shared before - I haven't gone back through the thread. THC

I read the whole thing before the penny dropped...! :E THC

I spent the weekend at Shiiine On in Skegness and saw several acts over the three days. Highlights included The Beat, The Specials (Neville Staple), Cud, Utah Saints and Bentley Rhythm Ace. The last one in particular surprised me as I always regarded them as a bit of a joke act, but they were...

Braintree to Haverhill, 21 miles. An attempt to make the most of the sunshine by starting early was foiled as the blue skies of mid Essex gave way to fog further north, so the first few miles from Braintree northwards afforded only limited visibility. Bocking Churchstreet was the only...

Yes. Unless you are *very* fit it will be difficult to sustain 30-mile days for very long, especially if climbs and descents are involved. If your daily span of comfort is 30 miles then plan for 20-mile days with regular rest days built in. And take good care of your feet as you go, because...

You can blame the Americans for that. In Ireland the celebrations were up until very recently generally low-key and kept to one day, not least as St Patrick's Day falls squarely in the middle of Lent. In the best pragmatic tradition of Catholics everywhere (if not Catholicism itself), we...

The one I saw related to Thierry Henry's double handball for France against Ireland... THC

I hadn't seen your post when I made mine - a lovely coincidence. I know their version well. Makem - the Bard of Armagh - was an amazing orator as well as singer. Here's one of my favourites - Makem solo this time, but they also recorded it together. I hope you like it. Tommy Makem - Roddy...

For the day that's in it: The Mary Wallopers - The Holy Ground THC

810006 formed the 1550 Nottingham-St Pancras yesterday and was faultless throughout - we even arrived into London a few minutes early. THC

You can remove the "Celtic and" from that sentence. Despite the idiots that ran onto the pitch to celebrate in front of the Broomloan stand, I don't remember any Celtic fans running the length of the pitch to throw lit flares into the opposition seating. I watched Rangers "fans" do exactly...

Midleton to Youghal, 26km / 16 miles. It was a close-run thing when reinstating the railway to Midleton whether they would continue all the way to the coast but the Greenway won out and so from there it's all walkers and cyclists today. The walk was a head-down affair, occasional glimpses of...