Hammer hurling and caber tossing

Olympic heights

Orkney hosted the 2025 edition of the Island Games, with Bermuda emerging as champions

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The Cuillin Ridge is often regarded as Britain’s most sustained and technical mountaineering excursion. Co-editor David Lintern attempted a ‘walker’s traverse’ of this infamous challenge, supporting a friend’s Munro round. In an environment now largely professionalised, theirs was an adventure by amateurs in the classic sense

This article first appeared in Golf World and was written by the late, great Dale Concannon

Imposing heavy horses sporting colourful ribbons, wool and raffia in manes and tails make impressive sights in show rings. But creating head-turning plaits is something that has to be learned and honed over time, as The Shire Horse Society’s Yvonne Simmons explains