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Cheltenham opened its doors in 1815 and is set over 350 acres in the beautiful Cotswold countryside. It is most famous for arguably one of the biggest events on the horse racing calendar worldwide - the four-day Cheltenham Festival that’s held annually in March. It also hosts some of the biggest national hunt races across the country and...

More than 100 children competed in the final of this year’s Bradfords Community Cup, the major regional tag rugby festival for under-8s held at Sandy Park.

Sponsored by Bradfords Building Supplies and hosted by the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Club, the Cup is designed to foster grassroots interest in sport in local communities around the region.

Competing teams included Tavistock RFC, Newton Abbot RFC, Barnstaple RFC and Plymstock Albion Oaks RFC. All those taking part received a medal, trophy, t-shirts and a goodie bag.

The Bradfords Community Cup followed the...

With England rugby players still operating with COVID restrictions during the Guinness Six Nations, O2’s 5G mobile network was able to project Ellis Genge, Jack Nowell and Henry Slade as 4k holograms to surprise a group of schoolchildren with a ‘world first’ virtual rugby PE lesson.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, England Rugby players have had to operate under COVID restrictions, meaning that they have been unable to meet fans and the British public in person.

So ahead of England’s crunch game with Ireland at Twickenham on Saturday 12 March, O2 teamed up...

The 2022 renewal of the Cheltenham Festival is pretty much here! That’s right, there is now less than a week to go until the ‘Greatest Show on Turf’ gets underway at the iconic Prestbury Park in the heart of the Cotswolds and racing fanatics will be back in attendance for the first time two years — meaning anticipation really is at boiling point as we count down the final few days!

There is so much to get excited about and look forward to next week, but for novices, the Cheltenham Festival can be a rather daunting spectacle to get your head around when you know very little there...