Hammer hurling and caber tossing

Olympic heights

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

SATURDAY 30 AUGUST—FRIDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2025

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

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with