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Stuart Bithell makes a clean sweep at the International Moth GP at the WPNSA © Dylan Fletcher After nine months since the Moth nationals at Weymouth, and a long winter with no racing, 33 Moth sailors descended upon Weymouth despite a windy forecast itching to dust off their boats and get some long-needed race practice. With the forecast being in the high 20s there were a lot of nervous faces in the boat park and a few competitors deciding that discretion is the greater part of valour. Race 1 started in a very manageable 15knts with Jim McMillan and David Hivey leading the fleet f...

WhatsApp ON THE occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on June 2nd 1953, a year and four months after she had become queen on the death of her father, 82 towns and villages in Britain roasted an ox—the Ministry of Food having loosened post-war food rationing rules only for places that could show they had a tradition of doing so on such occasions. Others gathered at street parties, crowded around new television sets in homes smelling of Bakelite and tobacco and strung bunting from buildings black with soot. On September 9th 2015 Queen Elizabeth II’s reign reached its 23,226th day, ...