The boys from Stockport are back and just as exciting and fresh as ever — Stockport’s finest Blossoms have released their new album ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’ and it is a collection of songs which is two years in the making. It is the band’s first drop of new music since before the pandemic, and the new album is another reminder (if anyone needs one)…

Ben Stokes becomes the 81st captain of the men’s English Test cricket team — He’s the man who almost everyone expected to be handed the England captaincy, but also the man who many felt wouldn’t be the right man for it. After just under two weeks of speculation, Ben Stokes has been officially unveiled as England Men’s test cricket captain, replacing Joe Root who…

More than one English Football League team has been financially crippled in recent years, here is a look at just three of them — Oldham Athletic became the reluctant first member of a club that no side wanted to be part of. The Latic’s relegation to the fifth tier of English football meant that they were the first former Premier League side to drop out of the football league. Relegation is brutal on any…

How the body of a Welshman helped to fool Adolf Hitler — The secrecy and espionage of the Second World War has been documented in great deal in the years following the conflict. Perhaps the most famous chapter of this secret war took place at Bletchley Park and the efforts to crack the supposedly unbreakable Enigma code. As incredible as this feat…

Cricket’s newest format is divisive to say the least, but here’s why I thoroughly enjoyed my first taste of it — The Hundred. It is one of the more contentious chapters in cricket’s long and conflicted history. The new format was a step into a brave new world for cricket in the UK, and one that added to an already busy-looking summer schedule. Assessing its success depends on which criteria you…

The Colliers stumble to a third straight defeat, yet promotion hopes aren’t yet completely dashed — On what was one of the warmer Easter Saturdays in recent years and in the absence of a Shotton Colliery home game, I visited Ebac Northern League Division Two side Easington Colliery. A ten minute drive closer to the north east coastline, Easington’s home ground located within the Welfare Park…

On one day in December 1916, Mother Nature showed just how cruel she could be — Death in the First World War took many forms. Soldiers would be killed through artillery, machine gun fire, sniper shots, mined from below or bombed from above. Many others were claimed by sickness, or drowned in water-filled shell holes. The fact is that soldiers died in many, horrible ways. On…

England crumble in Grenada as West Indies seal series victory — England stumbled to yet another series defeat as a batting collapse in either innings gifted West Indies an easy run chase. The tourists lost the toss and were put into bat by Kraigg Braithwaite, and set about falling apart almost from the get go. Alex Lees finished with a hard…

England’s Caribbean tour landed in Barbados with the series still level after one Test match — Another tough playing surface made for a batters dream and a bowlers nightmare, and West Indies captain Kraigg Braithwaite scored over 200 runs in the match to help his side to another draw. The tourists made two changes to the side, with Saqib Mahmood and Matt Fisher were given their…