Mayor of the mascots

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

Three people who have declared themselves to be a “lost African tribe” have set up home in woodlands near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, proclaimed it to be the “kingdom of Kubala”, and changed the

A week is said to be a lifetime in football. That adage has never rung truer than for Morecambe, who across just seven summer days, journeyed from despair to delirium. On Saturday, August 16, most oth

In the annals of high strangeness forteana, few cases are quite as strange as that of Sandown Sam. On a Tuesday afternoon in May 1973, a seven-year-old girl (given the pseudonym “Fay” in the BUFORA re

Boris Becker on life in jail When Boris ...

Fergus Bisset recounts some of the extracurricular activities of the great golfing champion Walter Hagen . Suffice to say, he was something of a party animal