“fancy a helicopter ride, emlyn?”

The front page of the Daily Mirror was emphatic. Less than two months after they had won an historic Treble, Manchester United were preparing to sit out the FA Cup to take part in the new FIFA Club Wo

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Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

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Gone, but never forgotten – Kate Johnson unearths the stories behind the spectacular horses that have given their names to trophies