Limato poised for star turn as Candy aims for double

Henry Candy: Music Master the pick. Picture: Getty A TOP-NOTCH card at Haydock helps light up the weekend with Limato promising to be the star of the show in the 888sport Sandy Lane Stakes. It is a pity this horse is a gelding, with any Classic dreams over the winter precluded on those grounds.For few juveniles caught the imagination as much as Henry Candy’s charge last year, with a four-race campaign rounded off Read more [...]

Tom Conti puts home he bought for £165k on market for £17.5million

Tom Conti was in planning battle with football star neighbour Thierry HenryThe actor once claimed he would never leave his Hampstead mansionBut it appears he has lost patience in fight to halt building developmentsHe has now put his five-bedroom home on the market for £17.5million By Simon Cable for the Daily Mail Published: 22:49 GMT, 29 May 2015 | Updated: 01:20 GMT, 30 May 2015 Read more [...]

New York’s exclusive new views

In New York, all eyes are now on the unmissable 104-storey, 1,776ft-tall One World Trade Center. Having slowly risen from the site of the fallen Twin Towers, it is now complete and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. With its One World Observatory opening this weekend, the 100th to 102nd floors of this locally divisive building are finally open to the public.The views are, of course, unparalleled but with all the attention the attraction has been getting the crowds are certain to be Read more [...]

I Just Don’t Get The Troubles

I watched BBC’s Panorama on state collusion in criminality during the troubles in a state of shock. I knew this kind of thing happened, we all did… people killed, people were killed, people enabled killings and people seemed to acknowledge that killing just sort of…happened.I’m 28, I was born in May 1987 four days before the Loughgall Ambush, I was eight months old when the Milltown Cemetary attack took place, I wasn’t yet two years old when Pat Finucane was murdered, a month before Read more [...]

Toilet bock listed for possible sale

The Art Deco public toilets block in Severn St has been put on a list of properties potentially for sale by the Waitaki District Council. The Oamaru stone building, with separate toilets for men and women on each side, were a popular comfort stop for motorists on the Christchurch to Dunedin route until it closed about three years ago and people were directed to other toilets in Oamaru. However, some still stop, Read more [...]

Neverland Ranch for Sale: 2700-Acre Property Listed at $100 Million

Neverland Ranch, previously occupied by late pop superstar Michael Jackson, is up for sale. The asking price? A cool $100 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, the 12,000-square-foot, 6-bedroom mansion house is nestled among over 20 other structures across the 2,700-acre property. Located in Los Olivos, California, just a few miles north of Santa Barbara, the property has been re-christened as Sycamore Valley Ranch by Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s International Realty, and Hilton Read more [...]

Should the Great Barrier Reef be listed as ‘in danger’ by Unesco?

The draft decision not to place the Great Barrier Reef on Unesco’s ‘in danger’ list is a coup for Australia. The government has lobbied intensely to avoid the ignominy of a ‘world heritage in danger’ listing that would undermine tourism at a site that attracts two million visitors each year. Having its ability to protect the natural wonder questioned by the UN would have been a further stain on the environmental credibility of a country now viewed in some quarters as a global vandal. It Read more [...]

WATCH:Ruthin batcam captures rare breeding colony at historic Grade 1 listed …

Live video of roosting bats inside Wales’s oldest dated timbered town house is being captured via webcam. A breeding colony of lesser horseshoe bats – a rare and charismatic species – can be viewed at Grade 1 listed Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin. Bats are in the attic of the historic house and are using it as a maternity roost, where the females have their young during the summer months from approximately April to September. From June onwards the babies cling to their mums. Chester Zoo teamed Read more [...]