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Clinking our glasses in front of a roaring fire whilst sampling some of Yorkshire’s finest fare, there can be few better places to spend a cosier night in the country than at The General Tarleton.

Today’s racing predictions come from Ascot, Newcastle and Gowran Park. Read our expert’s nap of the day, next best and other selections.

I THINK it would be fair to say it has been an interesting week, with a new Health Secretary in the shape of my former boss Sajid Javid. I was pleased to hear him talk so positively from the Despatch Box about the ending of restrictions, a message reinforced on Wednesday when I asked Gavin Williamson about the end of self-isolation for school children. It is one of the biggest issues in my postbag at the moment. Distressingly in the Lower Test at Nursling there has been a terrible pollution...

Fine dining and food markets to come to Breaking Bread By Lowie Trevena, Tuesday May 11, 2021 Two of Bristol’s much-loved restaurants will come together in a new collaboration at Breaking Bread. Breaking Bread hosted tipi restaurants of the Pony & Trap and Pasta Loco, and organisers have now announced that fine dining will return to the Downs on May 20. The all-new restaurant concept, Home Grown, has been created by Josh Eggleton, Ben Harvey and Joe Harvey as a way to celebrate Bristol’s fo...

4:35PM, APR 19 2021 John and Thady Gosden will saddle the first foal out of Taghroodas full-sister in the form of  Ubahha, a son of Dubawi, in the mile novice contest ( 4.45) at Yarmouth on Tuesday.  The three-year-old Ubahha is out of the winning Taqaareed, a Shadwell homebred and a full-sister to Oaks and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Taghrooda. The pair are out of the multiple stakes-winning Sadlers Wells mare Ezima.  Among the geldings ten rivals are God...

Table Talk: Tom Scade 3rd February, 2021 by Lucy Shaw Essex-born Tom Scade first dirtied his chef whites at Langan’s Coq d’Or in London as an apprentice chef before moving to The Ritz Hotel in London as a chef de partie, where he was tutored by executive Chef John Williams. In 2008, he left London to help launch The Bee in Surrey, moving to Cornwall a year later to work at The Mariners Rock. I...

Bournemouth restaurants to dine with on Christmas day Make your Christmas extra special this year by booking for a festive feast in one of these Bournemouth restaurants. Theres nothing quite like a full-on Christmas dinner but for many of us our homes will be a little quieter than usual which makes festive preparation this year a slightly different challenge.  So why not take the stress out of the big day and leave the cooking to the professionals?   The Riverside, Belle Vue Road Four...