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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
This had a very different feel to 2004, when Paul Nicholls and Martin Pipe slugged out the title in the dying days of the season like two drunks on a pavement outside a pub. Reading the hugely respected Timeform's review of that season brought it all back to me. I quote.
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4 weeks ago | 
businesswire.com | Charlie Brooks
The final phase of the refurbished Kansai International Airport (KIX) Terminal 1 has now opened to accommodate the millions of passengers expected to pass through the iconic building to attend World Expo in Osaka. KANSAI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kansai Airports and global design firm Populous have been working for more than seven years to completely reimagine the airport’s floor plan, bringing a new level of efficiency and experience for travellers to Japan’s west.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
Days later there was a serious fire near Melbourne, Australia that took 70 firefighters to extinguish. A day after that, in Galway, Ireland, firefighters were hospitalised by toxic fumes and 1,300 people were evacuated at a lithium-ion battery fire. But as a direct result of energy secretary Ed Miliband's reckless and futile race to net-zero carbon, our economy is being trashed and the safety of everyone living in the vicinity of a BESS facility is being wilfully swept under the carpet.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
The capricious punters in the crowd roared for his head. But three days later, after he had landed the money on bankers Kargese and Jasmin De Vaux, all was forgiven - until he got beaten on Galopin Des Champs. The one that really got away in favour of the bookmakers was Johnnywho in the Kim Muir on Thursday. Crack Irish jockey Derek O'Connor came to the last, and perhaps with the criticism of Townend's ride on State Man ringing in his head, decided to play it safe.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
My “Nine days of Cheltenham” will start at The Fox at Oddington this Thursday. Many consider Lady Bamford’s pre-Cheltenham Festival evening to be the perfect work-out before the Festival to ensure that they are “p---ed fit” for the four-day marathon. In attendance this year will be Willie Mullins, Nicky Henderson, Ben Pauling, Jonjo O’Neill and Colin Brown, among other local trainers. Getting good tips should be as straightforward as mining rare minerals in the Donbas.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
Baroness Twycross was head of governance at Diabetes UK before being elected on to the London Assembly to become Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for fire and resilience. She has a proud record of public service, but I contacted the baroness’s team last week to ask them what qualifications she had for being minister with responsibility for horse racing and gambling. They assured me that she has been to lots of meetings and is looking forward to visiting a racecourse in the spring.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
The biggest talking point around the Cheltenham Festival will be, as it has been for the past few years, the extraordinary number of winners trained in Ireland. But that fixation misses a wider point: where the best horses are actually produced. Who trains the most winners at the Festival has always been down to socio-economic factors, as opposed to the relative merits of the trainers on either side of the Irish sea. It comes down to money.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlie Brooks
Lossiemouth, pictured at Fairyhouse last weekend with Paul Townend on board, is the new favourite for the Champion Hurdle Credit: Seb Daly/Getty Images Every National Hunt season, one group of horses really fascinates me – and this year it is the two-mile hurdlers. Lossiemouth is the new favourite for the Champion Hurdle after a blistering win in Ireland last weekend. Not only is she an exceptional talent, she also gets a seven-pound weight allowance off the boys ‘because she’s a girl’. The...
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Ash-har Quraishi |Amy Corral |Charlie Brooks |Matt Clark |Scott Pham |Jose Sanchez | +3 more
The death of a 19-year-old college student on a Texas highway is raising questions about the fleet of drivers Amazon uses to move packages between its facilities. College freshman Iliana Velez's life was cut short in a crash with a contractor who was driving to pick up an Amazon load. A University of Texas freshman, Velez was working nights sorting packages part time at an Amazon fulfillment center. In the early morning hours of Jan.
