mike rowbottom

Two wonderful athletes, two incredible role models.

🗣️'It will be a very different Russell Brand we see in there.' Sky's Katie Spencer speaks to @skysarahjane outside Southwark Crown Court ahead of the comedian's sentencing. She says there will be 'no fashion parade' or 'posing' anymore as Brand finds out how long he will serve in prison.

7th November 2017 Park Parade was built in the late 19th century as a residential street of two-storey houses on the site of former nurseries on the edge of Jesus Green. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambrid… and all bookshops.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float.

"If James Talarico beating Ken Paxton was a political earthquake, then this is an even bigger aftershock." Sky's @marthakelner reacts after Gina Hinajosa beats GOP incumbent Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial race. Watch our live coverage ➡️ trib.al/g387SDC

✍️📸 The first @AIPSEurope and @EuroAthletics media awards for sports writing and photography have been handed out at a ceremony in Lausanne. Getty Images’ Michael Steele proved successful with an image of Italian shot putter Leonardo Fabbri, while PA’s Martin Rickett and The Sun’s Rob Maul were also recognised… @AIPSmedia sportsjournalists.co.uk/phot…

Wow she is fantastic.

Most Victoria Crosses are awarded for a single act of courage. Leonard Cheshire's was awarded for four years of them. He was a bomber pilot with the RAF, and by the end of his career he had flown more than 100 missions over occupied Europe, at a time when most bomber crews didn't survive 30. In 1943 he took command of 617 Squadron, the famous Dambusters. Instead of marking targets from high altitude, Cheshire flew in at rooftop height in a small, fast plane, dove into the flak and searchlights, and dropped marker flares right on top of the target so the heavy bombers behind him couldn't miss. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1944. Then the story took a turn. In August 1945, Cheshire was chosen as Britain's official observer on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He watched the mushroom cloud rise from an American plane flying alongside the bomber. It changed him. After the war, he took a dying former airman with nowhere to go into his own house and cared for him. That act grew into the Cheshire Homes, a charity that went on to care for disabled people around the world. He spent the rest of his life on it. He died in 1992.

Kids making fun of influencers just restored my faith in humanity. Nature is healing🤣

Günter Grass #botd, was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism.

The Blue Moment and a shameless bit of self-promotion: thebluemoment.com/2026/10/14…

A 16 year old Ronnie Boyce made his first team debut for West Ham against Millwall in the Southern Floodlight Cup on this day 1959. West Ham Legend 'Ticker' won the FA Cup in 1964 - scoring the winner - and the ECWC in 1965 and played 341 games in Claret and Blue. Ron received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 ⚒️

It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel. If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.

Great to see this from the Times Literary Supplement. All papers should ban AI writing.

As Iago explained his hatred of Cassio: “He hath a beauty in his daily life that makes me ugly.”

One of the very very best I have ever had the pleasure of working with - both on the track and ringside. And more importantly a lovely man. Deserves to enjoy his retirement to the max!

"𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏!" 🥹 Geoff Wightman was commentating the 1500m final at the 2022 World Athetics Championships when his own son, Jake, crossed the line first. 🎥: X/Katharine Merry #EOC

A superb honour for The Shearmanator. Every Olympics from Tokyo ‘64 to Rio ‘16. Any classic photo you see from those Games (or 17 World Athletics Championships in between) will be from @AthleticsImages He worked full on right up to Budapest 2023. This week’s Ultimate venue.