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Longtime Standardbred industry participant Robert 'Bob' Carss passed away peacefully at Dundas Manor in Winchester, Ont., on May 24, 2022, in his 85th year.

Ashes anniversaries: Armstrong’s Australians A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size This winter marks the centenary of the Australian team’s record-breaking feats under Warwick Armstrong’s leadership. After regaining the Ashes at home 5-0, it then retained them away 3-0. Its eight consecutive victories is an Ashes record. It was a world record until the West Indies broke it in 1984. Armstrong is still the only captain to have led a team in eight or more matches without a single defeat. It’s timely to a...

A LEADING comedian is thrilled to be getting back on stage for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Arthur Smith, who lives in Balham, will be back in front of audiences at the Warren in Marlborough Place as part of the Brighton Fringe. The show, entitled SYD, will include stories about Arthur’s father Syd Smith. Arthur will tell tales of when Syd was a prisoner of war at Colditz Castle in Germany and from the time he was a policeman patrolling London’s South Bank. He said: “It is a show about my father and his hilarious stories. I will be singing a little b...

“My world has switched around, big time.” Indeed, it has. In a 37-year distinguished television career, McIntyre started worked at 10 a.m. and went to 7 p.m. “Now, by 8:30 p.m., I’m thinking about going to bed,” he said, always thinking of the wake-up alarm sounding at 3:30 a.m. McIntyre recently was given the keys to 630 CHED Mornings — a return to his first ambition: radio. Growing up in Vermilion, he listened to 630 CHED when the AM giant was rocking the tunes. “CHED was my radio station. They had guys like (morning man) Wes Montgomery, who was a rock star. They had great mus...

Syd Smith was a POW in WW2 and worked as a police officer in London in the 1950s Smith is also making a Radio 4 stand-up special, and has recorded a podcast pilot with Miriam Margolyes Arthur Smith is turning his late father's life story into a Radio 4 special and book, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Both the half-hour stand-up show and the book, which has the working title That in turn was inspired by his father's own memoirs, which he wrote down for his family in 2004, shortly before he died, about his World War Two exploits and experiences as a police officer in the 1950s, p...