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The Leader Newspaper Doug Mountjoy former UK Snooker Champion dies aged 78 Doug Mountjoy, the two-time former UK snooker champion, has died at the age of 78. Welshman Mountjoy, whom I befriended during the UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall during a near two decades annual event turned professional after winning the world amateur title in 1976. World Championship finalist in 1981, Mountjoy who reached a career-high fifth in the world rankings in 1990, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1993 and subsequently had a lung removed. He continued to play professionally until 1997, ...

Having to watch as the building your club was located in burn to the ground because the fire service was stretched to its absolute limits is something you'd expect to take place maybe at the turn of the 20th century, but 11th April 2003 is a date etched on the minds of the members of the Dundalk Commercial Club as they watched this very horror story unfold. Thankfully there was no loss of life in the fire which gutted the premises in Earl Street that saw shops Mackenna Man, R.Q. O'Neill's and the Democrat Newspaper severely damaged as the blaze swept through. Having to wait for a hydraulic pl...

15 events happening in Hull we can still look forward to in 2021 Here's a guide to what can fill that new 2021 diary Council-owned buildings which form the Guildhall campus are set to form the first part of Hull's ambitious district heating network (Image: FlyCam UK) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. O...

In August, there was cause for celebration following the miraculous rescue of two cousins who spent 15 hours stranded at sea. Ellen Glynn and Sara Feeney got into difficulty after going paddleboarding at Furbo Beach in Co Galway. A major search and rescue operation was launched after the young women failed to return to shore and many feared the worst. 1. Galway ‘miracle’ rescue The next morning, however, the pair were discovered by local fisherman Patrick Oliver and his son Morgan. Oliver used his fishing experience to predict where the young women might have drifted and located them some...

Snapshots of the Covid year in sport Updated / Thursday, 24 Dec 2020 11:59 No Aintree Grand National, no Wimbledon. More casualties in a year where much more than sport was upended. A time of frayed nerves as people coped with being unable to do the most normal of things. For others there was the pain of not being present when loved ones passed away. What a cruel virus. Funerals stripped of the trappings that should give full expression to those who have left us.  The vaccines are being rolled out. No silver bullet, we're told, in completely ridding the world of Covid-19, but it's a start...