Posts Tagged ‘Cheltenham’
Preparing for Cheltenham with Kayley Woollacott
Kayley Woollacott became a National Hunt trainer after her husband, Richard, who took his own life in January 2018. She guided Lalor to a debut win over fences in their first outing of the campaign at the Cheltenham November Meeting. Can they do it again at the 2019 Cheltenham Festival, where Lalor is among the early favourites for the Grade 1 Arkle Challenge Trophy?
Spotter: Betway
Cheltenham shopping centre opens up range of dull fake shops – photos
THE High Street is dying. It’s victim of restructuring. But until it can be redesigned to make better use of space and local retailers and suppliers who can’t afford exorbitant rates set before the internet kicked in, the high street will continues to feature empty units.
But why not pretend they’re real shops? At Coronation Square shopping centre in Hester’s Way, Cheltenham, the owners of a struggling shopping centre have been filling empty lots with fake shops. They are remarkably unimaginative. Why not have a WMD retailer, a purveyor of stains that look like Jesus Christ or a shop selling cats that look like Hitler?
The internet is winning. The old high street needs to readjust:
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Posted: 19th, June 2013 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment
Irish footballer wins Cheltenham tabloid sweepstake
CONGRATULATIONS to those punters who backed an Irish footballer to be the subject of a Cheltenham race goer behaving badly. The Mail alleges that one Leicester City player “was so unruly on the second day.. that security had to be called to the grandstand box”.
His name? Sean St Ledger.
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Cheltenham Does St Patrick’s Day: Green To The Gills
IT’S St Patrick’s Day, and the Cheltenham regulars are dressing up in green. It’s always dressing up at the races. The women wear high shoes and big hats. The little men were little shoes and colourful jerseys. John McCririck dresses up as the window of Oxfam…