Crowds have returned to the Cheltenham Festival this week, a year after racing’s equivalent of the Olympics was staged behind closed doors due to the pandemic. Wednesday brought the punters out in their finery for Ladies Day, and they shrugged off some miserable weather to make up for the lost year at the famous Gloucestershire event. The day started with a special heritage steam train service taking racegoers to the site on Ladies Day. The train service proved popular( Ben Birchall/ PA)( PA Wir

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A UNIVERSITY student has told how she cried all day after arriving at her new ￡170-a-week room-only to find out that it’s a STORAGE cupboard. Second-year Criminal Investigative student Georgia Sayward, 19, was forced to spend her first night back at Anglia Ruskin on a mattress in the kitchen....

FURIOUS traders in a picturesque town are fighting back against a new ban on shutters protecting their shops. Store-owners in Maidstone, Kent, have been threatened with legal action by council chiefs ordering them to take down metal barriers from their front windows.... 1 A jeweller in Maidstone town centre is among those battling back against a council ban Credit: Google Maidstone Borough Council have accused them of breaking the law, as part of a new crackdown aimed at improving the appearanc

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A NEWBORN girl was found dead on a conveyor belt at a recycling plant after her mum's" very difficult labour", an inquest was told. The tragic tot, named Daisy, was discovered wrapped in a pink beach towel by workers in Bradford, West Yorkshire.... 5 A baby girl was found dead at a recycling plant in Bradford Credit: Guzelian 5 Cops released an image of a towel similar to the one she was found in Credit: Alamy The the girl, who was described as fair-skinned, with a full head of brown hair might

SHAMIMA Begum said today that Boris Johnson" doesn't know what he's doing" in the fight against terror. During her first live broadcast with Good Morning Britain, the 22-year-old said the PM is" clearly struggling" and suggested she could help stop UK jihadis from being groomed online.... I'm not doing it for anyone but myself." She added:" I am completely sorry for anyone that has been affected by ISIS.... Click here to upload yoursClick here to get The Sun newspaper delivered for FREE for th

Among those held up shortly after 8am was an NHS worker trying to get home after a night shift. Jay told LBC:" I'm exhausted.... I'm not happy with the situation." And pharmacist Graham Weidle, who is not able to get to work, said:" I need to open a pharmacy in Soho." I think[ Insulate Britain] are just going the wrong way about it.... " They are just working against themselves....

CHRIS Whitty has slammed" ridiculous" and" strange" vaccine myths peddled by US pop star Nicki Minaj. The Chief Medical Officer said that people who spread falsehoods about the Covid vaccine should be" ashamed" at a press conference this afternoon.... " There are a group of people with strange beliefs and that's fine, and they make their own choices.... I’m working on that now." In the meantime my loves, be safe....