When I did pop outside to start it up, it just spluttered and died. I ABSOLUTELY adore Minis. My first car was a Mini, cost pounds 20 and was older than God It came with two months’ MoT and was a complete rust heap. It was the car I intended to pass my test in [...]

She doesn’t usually like the heat, but of late she can be seen stretched out contentedly on the very spot where Fred popped his clogs.Putney rabbit syndrome? Personally, I’d have that cat’s guts for garters tomorrow.. What about pet rabbits being entitled not to have surgery but to fulfil their God-given role as mega-mothers, albeit [...]

But I’m not going to apologise for being excited.””I’ll take the blame,” Leonard interjected “I shouldn’t have run off the green. I should have just calmly walked over to my team-mates, which would have been very hard to do. So if you’re looking to point a finger, please point it at me. And I do [...]

And obviously in retrospect we probably wish we all would have jumped up and down in place instead of running down the side of the green. The celebration started spilling over and it really was not something that we need to be proud of and we’ve apologised.”
“What happened was unfortunate,” Lehman said “There never was [...]

THE DELEGATION from Jaguar could scarcely believe their luck. The race after being accepted into the Formula One fold, and putting their revered name to Stewart-Ford, the team walk away with first and third places. This maiden victory, secured in a rain-invigorated Grand Prix of Europe, has been coming all season. Pittsburgh’s quarter-back, Kordell Stewart [...]

But, according to Eales, the secret to World Cup success over the next six weeks will be forward strength “No team can win without the basics,” he warned. “Your game will have to be spot on at the scrum, at the lineout and at the breakdown.”He also dismissed any notion that the big three of [...]

Westerveld, heavier, taller and with a stronger reach, seemed shocked at his audacity but returned enough fire to justify a red card as well.With Liverpool having used three substitutes, Staunton had to go in goal. He made one superb save, from Abel Xavier, but the heroics came from Gerrard who made stunning saves from Meijer’s [...]

Eddie Irvine, the team’s championship challenger, was brought to the team’s headquarters at Maranello by helicopter for a piece of the president’s mind.
Irvine had to endure a 48-second pit stop at the Nurburgring on Sunday as mechanics searched for a missing wheel, the consequence of Mika Salo’s unexpected arrival for a new front wing.The crew [...]

England’s 2006 World Cup bid team is confident that the problem over the plans for the redevelopment of Wembley will prove to be nothing more than a “hiccup”. Internet users have until Friday to go and register their votes. Results will be announced on 20 December, the day before the Pipe Masters final in Oahu.
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Bruno was not so much a big personality as a buffoon – it was like the Monster Raving Loony Party romping home in a general election. To make up for this injustice, I hereby place Redgrave at the top of my list of the three most unsung – or should that be the three least [...]