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A NEW headmaster is set to take the reins at a Hereford school this year after the current head announced he would be stepping down after 16 years at the helm. Dr Michael Gray, of Harrow School, was chosen from more than 50 candidates to succeed Paul Smith as headmaster of Hereford Cathedral School. Kings College graduate Dr Gray taught at Halliford School in Shepperton and St Edward’s School, Oxford, before joining Harrow in 2013 as head of politics. He later became academic and universities director before taking up his appointment as director of studies in 2019 with overall responsibility for all academic matters at Harrow. ....
Supplied Jenny McDonald, who scored more than 200 goals for New Zealand, remains the only individual hockey player - female or male - inducted into the NZ Sports Hall of Fame. One of hockey s most prolific goal scorers, former NZ captain Jenny McDonald remembers the disappointment of the 1980 Olympics boycott, the thrill of playing for the World XI and the battle to move from grass to turf Twenty kilometres south-west of Whangarei sits the tiny township of Maungakaramea. It’s where one of New Zealand’s greatest-ever hockey players, Jenny McDonald, grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s. It’s the kind of place from which many top Kiwi sportspeople typically hail; where a kid might try all kinds of sports in the backyard and at primary school, before properly settling on one or two. ....
Last year I spent a long and convivial morning in Belfast in the company of Van Morrison. True, Morrison was not there at the time truth be told, I’ve never actually met or spoken to the bravest man in rock but that’s not the only way you can get to enjoy an unforgettable encounter with the controversial singer. Over a couple of drizzly hours amid the horseshoe hills of the Northern Ireland capital, I walked the Van Morrison Trail, a cost-effective option for visitors to East Belfast with a decent smartphone, a bit of spare time and lots of curiosity at their disposal. Memorable enough in its own right, the 3.5-kilometre journey also sheds valuable light on the artist who in recent days appeared to be annoying all the right people with his musically expressed political views. ....