Tessa Waugh enthusiastically swaps the meet for the match and is surprised to find that there are more parallels between the two winter sports than you might imagine

At 16, I was on top of the world. I was double World Youth champion, I’d been the fastest 14-year-old of all time in Europe, and I already had a shoe contract. At 15, I was UK champion over the 100 an

Dear Simon, I was particularly interested in Sylvia Lee’s item on Cope’s Pools in Yesterday Remembered (Pools Party, December). I worked at the company’s offices in Edmonton, north London in 1966-67.

I love soaps, and I’ll be watching the Coronation Street and Emmerdale “Corriedale” crossover on catch-up. A lot of my fellow Aussies like Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan had huge soap careers, but it

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