The path to the podium has never been easy for British speed skater Elise Christie… despite being a 10 times European gold medalist and the first European woman to win an overall world championship title, her failure to bring back medals from three Olympics has overshadowed what has so far been a highly successful career…
Track cycling has a long pedigree, with the first world championships dating back to Chicago in 1893. Starting out on an amateur footing, separate professional races were held from 1895 and it wasn’t until 1993 in Hamar, Norway, that “open” racing took over. Regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale, the championships are open to riders…
Among the lineup for London International Ska Festival 2019 are an unlikely group of Italian lovelies from Bologna who have a rocksteady grip on reggae and roots rhythms that would bring rays of Jamaican sunshine to even the darkest fog-filled London haze. A 10-piece female big band with a shared love of beer and Jamaican…
In 2017 Leicester played host to an award-winning immersive event that brought an array of activities to the city including live artworks, skateboarding, break-dancing, BMX, live music and exhibitions. Artists from all over the world came together to showcase a vast wealth of talent that has gone on to serve as inspiration for further artistic…
Heading into its fifth year, the Manchester Punk Festival takes place over Easter weekend and features some of the best bands currently bashing about on the UK and international punk circuit. Organised in tandem by TNS Records, Anarchistic Undertones and Moving North… the event is a three-day, multi-venue festival that takes place from 19-21 April…
A cocktail of music, comedy and ale, lots of ale, comes to Stockton at the end of February when the annual Ale and Arty Beer Festival clocks into the ARC from 28 February to 2 March. Offering more than 80 real ales, ciders and perries, the CAMRA-organised festival has a broad selection of quality beers…
It’s a new day and a new dawn for Redtooth Poker today, with the UK’s biggest pub poker league getting even bigger with the amalgamation of the Champions Poker league into the fold. With the first 13-week season of 2019 about to shuffle up and deal from tonight, more pubs than ever will be welcoming…
Featuring more than 130 UK beers as well as a wide selection of draught and bottled international ales, Bradford Beer Festival returns to Victoria Hall, Saltaire, for its 22nd successive year at the end of February. This year there will be a craft keg bar featuring innovative beers from local and regional new-wave brewers, plus…
If you’re a Welshman married to a Filipina, you’ll know that one of the things the nations share is a passion for singing. Wales may be known as the “land of song” but it’s a tag that could equally apply to the Philippines, where a large percentage of the population also have music running through…
With Anthony Joshua sitting on top of the world in the heavyweight game, Britain’s enjoying something of a purple patch in the boxing world at the moment. Joshua currently holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts and is the man to beat in the heavyweight division but Britain also has four other world beaters in…
