Essex angler Ben Sharp has picked up a gold medal at an international street fishing competition.He won the prize alongside his competition partner Nick Wilson, with the pair scoring more points than any other duo.Sharp and Wilson also joined four other anglers representing England at the third Street Fishing World Championships in Peschiera del Garda, northern Italy, and the team came second.Street fishing is a fast-paced, urban alternative to regular angling, in which competitors carry all of...

People adopting a grave will visit to leave flowers and pay respects, despite typically having no personal connection to the person it commemorates.“To honour them is the only thing you can do now, because they’re not around anymore, [all you can do] is to honour their graves and everything they did,” Kevin said.Knowing only his name, hometown and immediate family connections, the trio appealed to The Billericay Page Facebook group, seeking photos of Webber, personal information or details of li...

There’s an electricity that courses through a man before he’s put to the test. It’s the look of a sprinter waiting for the starting gun, a warrior before his final stand, a skydiver ready to leap at 30,000 feet. Intensely focused, it represents a lifetime of preparation converging on a single moment. Of all the places I’d expect to see that look, a cleaning convention at London’s ExCeL Centre was not it. Yet from a far corner of The Cleaning Show 2023 conference hall, I could see Terry ‘Turbo’

“So what are you doing for Valentine’s day?” Don’t worry, you don’t have to answer that. I just wanted to make sure you’re feeling the same pang of dread as me, because that’s what that question does, doesn’t it? It tethers a big ball of shame and self-loathing to our ankles whether we’re single or not. It’s sad. What was once a quirky annual milestone honouring an almost 1800-year-old saint has become a monolith. Valentine’s day is now a blinding, pink sun that explodes into life this time eve