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08/08/2025

When Leeds and Liverpool ‘disgraced’ the season curtain-raiser by Jon Howe
This August, Leeds United will be marking their Premier League return with a visit from Everton to Elland Road, but back in 1974 a tumultuous season started with a Charity Shield date at Wembley with the other Merseyside giant, and a suitably chaotic occasion ensued.
As the reigning league title holders Leeds United should have been in a happy place, but were far from it and it showed. As it happens, both Leeds and Liverpool were at remarkably similar junctures in their history and trajectory. Don Revie and Bill Shankly had each taken their clubs from Second Division mediocrity to competing at the top of the European game, but after 13 and 15 years at the helm respectively, the two esteemed managers had vacated the hotseat that summer.
While Liverpool promoted from within in Bob Paisley, Leeds opted not to do likewise with Johnny Giles. Instead, many believe Leeds changed their historic course forever by appointing Brian Clough, and this was his first game in charge. Accordingly, the mood had soured in the Leeds dressing room as the acerbic Clough failed to win over his new squad, and while the Leeds-Liverpool rivalry had been historically competitive, it had never boiled over into outright physical antipathy, until today.
Liverpool took a 20th minute lead in the Wembley sunshine when Phil Boersma bundled in the rebound from a Kevin Keegan shot Leeds goalkeeper David Harvey could only parry. But events erupted in the second half. Spiteful challenges from both sides had littered the play, and Leeds’s playmaker Giles reacted when Keegan raked his shins once again. In full view of the referee Bob Matthewson, Giles floored Keegan with a right hook, but received only a yellow card.
Moments later, in the 60th minute, Keegan swung a punch at Leeds captain Billy Bremner off-the-ball. He later said it was in retaliation to Bremner punching him initially. Regardless, the ref had had enough and sent both players off. Keegan lost his rag, took off his shirt and threw it away. Several yards behind him, Bremner did the same as they each took the long trudge back to the dressing rooms.
Leeds equalised on 70 minutes with a deft Trevor Cherry header from a deep Peter Lorimer cross, but lost the game on penalties – the first time the Charity Shield had been settled that way - when goalkeeper Harvey skied a sudden death spot kick. To widespread incredulity, the FA continued their summer ‘get tough’ campaign to clean-up the game, and awarded both Keegan and Bremner with unprecedented 11-match bans for bringing the game into disrepute.

08/08/2025

New Releases this August
by Liam Hathaway
The Naked Gun
(dir. Akiva Schaffer)
To most film fans, Leslie Nielsen is an absolute comedy treasure. His ingenious deadpan and physical comedy in classics such as AIRPLANE! and the original NAKED GUN series alone remains the benchmark for this kind of comic perfection, and the films themselves are genre classics. For this surprise NAKED GUN remake/reboot, however, Liam Neeson is stepping into the role as Nielsen’s Frank Drebin’s son – in many ways an odd, but also perfect casting choice. With Akiva Schaffer directing, someone who completely understands unconventional comedy, having previously helmed HOT ROD and POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING, I’m quietly optimistic that this could be one of the funniest films of the year. Surely, I can’t be serious. “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” In cinemas August 1st.
Eddington
(dir. Ari Aster)
I’ll be honest, I was beginning to lose a little patience with Ari Aster’s films after sitting through all three hours of his indulgent 2023 psychosexual traumageddon mess BEAU IS AFRAID – particularly after he’d directed HEREDITARY and MIDSOMMAR, two slightly overrated but touchstone recent horror films. His latest effort, EDDINGTON, is something of a curveball: a contemporary neo-Western black comedy that focuses on a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) that goes way off the rails. Consider me intrigued, especially with a stacked supporting cast that features Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell and Clifton Collins Jr. Here’s hoping I’m won over by Aster again. In cinemas August 22nd.

Only On Streaming.
Happy Gilmore 2
(dir. Kyle Newacheck)
Hollywood’s tendency to pick beloved cult films from the past and devise potentially unnecessary sequels or reboots for them has proliferated recently. Look no further than this page: three of the films I’m highlighting are sequels(!). That said, there are some I’m a little more accepting of than, say, the twenty-eighth superhero film of the calendar year, and HAPPY GILMORE 2 happens to be one of them. Almost three decades since the release of the anarchic 1996 original about a failed hockey player turned irreverent golf pro, ADAM SANDLER is donning the goofy slacks again and hitting those 400-yard hole-in-ones. Like many ‘90s kids, I watched the original over and over growing up, so this ‘unnecessary’ sequel gets a pass. On Netflix from July 25.
In Case You Missed It
28 Years Later
(dir. Danny Boyle)
I had high hopes for Danny Boyle’s belated sequel to his own touchstone 2002 horror film 28 DAYS LATER (of course, 28 WEEKS LATER exists, but it had no involvement from its key creators), but I never thought it would meet them in the ways it did. Set nearly three decades after the virus spread, this hugely anticipated follow-up sees a group of survivors who discover secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but also other survivors. Profoundly bleak as one might expect, but this manages to achieve an acute level of poignancy that the original only grazes. No one matches music to images quite like Danny Boyle, either, who has typically scoured his record collection to perfectly complement the otherwise ethereal, phantasmagorical mood this moves with. One of the finest of the year so far.
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08/08/2025

Look out for your Doncaster DN5 magazine dropping through your door this week.
We’re thrilled to bring you another issue packed with inspiring stories, exciting giveaways, and the best of what our local area has to offer. As a proud locally owned and run magazine, our mission is simple to celebrate the places, people, and businesses that make our community so special.
In this issue, don’t miss Jon Howe’s captivating feature on Castle Howard, a magnificent Yorkshire landmark steeped in over 300 years of history and architectural brilliance.
We’ve also got not one, but two fantastic competitions for our readers! Treat yourself with a chance to win an exclusive spa morning for two, courtesy of Iveridge Hall, the perfect way to relax and recharge. And with the new school year just around the corner, enter our second giveaway to win a WHSmith voucher to cover all your back-to-school essentials.
As always, thank you for supporting local. Happy reading!
You can also find all our features and much more too on our website
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07/08/2025

Beetling around Yorkshire
by Ian Rotherham
Summer is a the time to beetle down across Yorkshire’s countryside, from back gardens, to local parks or woods, or even in your house! A reader recently emailed me a picture of what turned out to be a nationally rare wood-boring beetle. This dead wood specialist that haunts crevices in wonderful ancient trees landed on his dressing gown and made quite an impression being strikingly marked in bold yellow with black markings. It seems to have emerged from firewood logs brought to his home from nearby woodland managed by the home-owner’s brother. Whilst some are just dull, black, many beetles (or at least the adults), are brightly and distinctively marked. Indeed, with around 4,000 or so British species, this aids their reliable recognition and identification. However, for the non-specialist, naming can still be a challenge, and I generally stick to the obvious ones. It is mostly the adult beetles that we see since many of their larvae are rather grub-like and generally hide away inside whatever they are eating such as the rotting timbers of an ancient oak-tree for instance. Otherwise, in the case of say ladybird larvae for example, they are on the surface of a plant-leaf or in a similar location.
Adult beetles have hard wing-cases called elytra, which are frequently marked with strong, brightly colours or in other cases, have a metallic sheen. The beetles I mentioned earlier include the so-called ‘Long-Horned Beetles’ and these have larvae which eat wood. Some feed on living timber (which may make them serious forestry pests) and others gorge on dead wood such as on and around great, old trees like at Yorkshire’s Duncombe Park or perhaps Doncaster’s remarkable great White Willows. These deadwood species include more common ones like various Wasp Beetles (marked with black and yellow stripes), and some particularly rare species found around old trees and particularly of ancient parkland. These rare insects are biological ‘indicators’ of the conservation value of special sites. Other deadwood specialists that I am interested in across the county include the Lesser Stag Beetle, and the aptly named Rhinoceros Beetle with its solitary horn. These two beetles are spreading across our region and benefit from conservation management such as we started in Sheffield way back in the 1980s. This was to manage ancient woodland so as to leave dead timber, standing and fallen, in parks and woods across the area. Look carefully at these old trees now and you see massed holes where the beetle larvae have burrowed away!
Under stones or logs, are predatory ground beetles, like the large, Violet Ground Beetle, or the commoner smaller species. Eating pests, these are the gardener’s friends. Others like the alien, bright red, invasive Lily Beetle are major pests. Cold weather this winter reduced the numbers emerging in springtime, but it will only be a temporary respite! The Cardinal is another bright red beetle, a predator found in parks, woods, and gardens. Similar but more orangey-coloured and frequently seen on umbellifer flowers, is the carnivorous, Common Red Soldier Beetle (or ‘Hogweed Bonking Beetle’) mostly seen on hogweed flowers and generally mating!
Professor Ian D. Rotherham is a researcher, writer and broadcaster on wildlife and environmental issues. He is contactable on [email protected] and you can follow his website and blog: www.ukeconet.org & https://ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/; and he can be followed on X

07/08/2025

The Understated Majesty of the Hotel Metropole by Jon Howe.
The visage of Leeds is a montage of visually arresting buildings and landmark images which showcase the history and architectural splendour of our wonderful city. If the Queens Hotel is the grandest example of this, just around the corner is perhaps the building with the most understated value, the Hotel Metropole.
As the best example in Leeds of the kind of striking terracotta frontage that was hugely popularised in the late 19th century, the Hotel Metropole is a hidden gem in terms of the many architectural achievements in the city. Stood at the foot of King Street and on the edge of the city’s eminent legal district, The Met, as it was renamed following a £6m revamp in 2005, rarely features amongst the iconic images of the city it has served well for over 125 years, but is undisputedly Victorian architecture in Leeds at its best.
The Hotel Metropole was designed by Leeds-based architects Harry Sutton Chorley and JW Connon. It opened in 1899 and was built on the site of the former Fourth White Cloth Hall, and indeed this was adjacent to the mammoth Coloured Cloth Hall which was demolished to make way for City Square. The Fourth White Cloth Hall effectively, and unwittingly, marked the end of Leeds as a textile region. It was built to replace the nearby Third White Cloth Hall in 1868, but only lasted until 1895 and was barely used in between, due to the rapid decline of the cloth-making industry in Leeds.
Still, the cupola of the Fourth White Cloth Hall was retained and used for the Hotel Metropole, which still showcases this distinctive feature at the top of the iconic rounded frontage. Immediately, the Hotel Metropole was identified as one of the more salubrious hotels in Leeds, and its interior featured a bar and restaurant area as well as an elegant ballroom, which is still used today for weddings, conferences and events.
The Hotel Metropole featured as the fictional ‘Marble Arch Hotel’ in the 1991 TV series ‘The Darling Buds of May’, but perhaps its most significant contribution to life in Leeds was hosting the meeting on 17th October 1919 which disbanded Leeds City Football Club. The players, playing kit, goalposts, nets and even physio kit were auctioned off in what was described in the local press as a “melancholy spectacle”, and Leeds United Football Club was formed later that day.
In 1989 the 120-room Hotel Metropole was gifted with blue plaque status, is now a Grade ll listed building and in 2025 is about to undergo a major internal and external refurbishment.

07/08/2025

Look out for your Ackworth Pontefract WF789 magazine coming through your door this week.
We’re thrilled to bring you another issue packed with inspiring stories, exciting giveaways, and the best of what our local area has to offer. As a proud locally owned and run magazine, our mission is simple to celebrate the places, people, and businesses that make our community so special.
In this issue, don’t miss Jon Howe’s captivating feature on Castle Howard, a magnificent Yorkshire landmark steeped in over 300 years of history and architectural brilliance.
We’ve also got not one, but two fantastic competitions for our readers! Treat yourself with a chance to win an exclusive spa morning for two, courtesy of Iveridge Hall, the perfect way to relax and recharge. And with the new school year just around the corner, enter our second giveaway to win a WHSmith voucher to cover all your back-to-school essentials.
As always, thank you for supporting local. Happy reading!
You can also find all our features and much more too on our website
www.titomedialtd.co.uk

06/08/2025

TITOMEDIA EXPLORER GUIDES with David Herdman
Worcestershire’s Malvern Hills.
Todays outing is along Worcestershire’s Malvern Hills, a sublime 10 mile line of hills which are steeped in history. Our hike traverses the northern half of these hills which are situated to the west of the spa town of Great Malvern in Worcestershire.

This day-out lends itself to a weekend away, or travel down early, either by car or on the train in 2hrs 30mins. To the west of the Malvern Hills are the Welsh Marches a large area of rolling farmland bordering England with Wales. To the east is the wide, majestic Seven Valley draining the Welsh hills into the Bristol Channel.
Since the Bronze Age, people have settled here and to prevent unwanted incursions onto their hunting grounds they built fortifications to keep out invaders. Todays hike will follow a ditch and d**e earthwork built along the crest of the Malvern Hills.
There’s a large carpark at the start of todays walk, £6 all day. Wynds Point carpark, Jubilee Road, Malvern WR13 6DW. W3W..jumbo.trickles.rising. Book a taxi to return the 6 miles back to the car. Or park in the carpark near the clock tower at the end of the route and use a taxi to travel to the start. The Clock Tower, North Malvern Road, Malvern, WR14 4LX. W3W..shower.crows.fizzy.
1. Cross Wells Road onto Jubilee Drive and walk to the rear of the Malvern Hills Hotel where a path steeply rises 20m through trees onto the broad ridge of Wynds Point. WOW, what great 360 views. From here simply follow the path which keeps to the high ground.
2. Immediately you can see the rollercoaster ride of todays hike. Each of the hills are named and our first is Black Hill at 308m. Look south and you will see the Iron Age hill fort of Herefordshire Beacon, known also as British Camp. Continue north and descend to a saddle with a boundary marker.
3. Ahead are the twin tops of Pinnacle Hill. Climb the steep 50m path onto the south top at 345m. The north top is higher at 357m and its summit has two flattened tumuli which are ancient burial cairns.
4. Descend to a lovely grove of scotts pines, presenting the perfect spot to rest awhile. Ahead is Jubilee Hill at 327m.
5. Continuing along the ridge, our next prominence is Perseverance Hill 325m, under which a railway tunnel, at a length of 1432m connects Malvern to Colwall.
6. Descend a rocky path on a line to the left of the main ridge, this path drops down to Wyche Road where there’s a public convenience, a Victorian style wind shelter and a Pub.
7. Cross the main road onto Beacon Road, this tarmac lane leads up to a small carpark. Continue along the tarmac until a stone diadem is reached at 310m. Here are references to ‘Cold Mine’ which are local collieries that produced large quantities of coal until their closure in the 1960’s.
8. Continue along the tarmac until it bears left to skirt around Summer Hill, here leave the tarmac onto a wide path heading over Summer Hill at 382m.
9. WOW, take in that great view of Worcestershire Beacon at 425m. Descend Summer Hill and either rejoin the tarmac to climb Worcestershire Beacon or stick to the wide dirt path following Shire Ditch. The summit is likely to be busy as it’s the highest point in Worcestershire. Tag the trig point and take a look at the memorial diadem dedicated to the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s 60th year of her reign.
10. There are many trails converging on the summit but our route follows the Shire Ditch north and down to the saddle. Sugarloaf Hill at 368m is next. Pass through a temporary metal gate containing friendly cows which roam and enjoy the fine views.
11. Descend and pass through a second temporary gate leading to a saddle. At a random iron fence post, bear left on a wide grassy path leading onto Table Hill at 373m. From Table Hill head east to a saddle, join a well worn and steep path onto North Hill at 397m. Return to the saddle between Table and North Hills then turn right and north.
12. Follow a path down to a dirt track, turn left. In 30m leave the track onto a dirt path leading to the appropriately named End Hill at 329m.
13. After the last little pimple, a nice grassy pathology descends to a terraced track. Turn right and descend to a left turn, keep descending to North Malvern Road, turn right and in approximately 500m the Clock Tower is reached and the end of this wonderful wander through Worcestershire’s Malvern Hills.
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06/08/2025

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06/08/2025

Look out for your Wakefield WF1_2_3_4 & 5 magazines dropping through your door this week.
We’re thrilled to bring you another issue packed with inspiring stories, exciting giveaways, and the best of what our local area has to offer. As a proud locally owned and run magazine, our mission is simple to celebrate the places, people, and businesses that make our community so special.
In this issue, don’t miss Jon Howe’s captivating feature on Castle Howard, a magnificent Yorkshire landmark steeped in over 300 years of history and architectural brilliance.
We’ve also got not one, but two fantastic competitions for our readers! Treat yourself with a chance to win an exclusive spa morning for two, courtesy of Iveridge Hall, the perfect way to relax and recharge. And with the new school year just around the corner, enter our second giveaway to win a WHSmith voucher to cover all your back-to-school essentials.
As always, thank you for supporting local. Happy reading!
You can also find all our features and much more too on our website
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06/08/2025

Ann Montini meets Johnnie Hamp the man who brought laughter to millions with his brilliant TV productions, stage shows and creation of some of the funniest people to ever grace our TV screens.

Johnnie lovely to see you again. iI’s wonderful that the Wheeltappers and Shunters club - is once again back on our TV screens golden memories for you.
Likewise Ann- so many memories and although it’s 50 years since the last Broadcast in many respects it seems like yesterday, I remember everything from booking the acts to the superstar guests that we had on each week.

So many great acts too, who were your favourites?
Too many to mention, simply because we could not believe who we were getting, the show it become so popular worldwide and once you get a big name say like Buddy Greco, then the rest follow.

I noted that you highlighted the fact that some of the shows have been edited. Do you wish they would just show them entirely as you made them?
Of course, the thing is there was nothing offensive about the shows anyway, we were on at a prime time slot back then and that was the year we were in, so I don’t really see the point of why they needed to edit them.

We have to talk about Colin Crompton and his famous bell.
I’m glad you mentioned that, it became something of a symbol for him. In fact he couldn’t really go to another club without taking it with him that and his flat cap. Of course he was very Debonair off stage, a wonderful funny man and greatly missed.

Bernard Manning
Another gem of a find, people forget that he started out as a big band singer with a wonderful voice, so we tended to use Bernard at the opening and the closing of the show, in fact people demanded it. He was always great with the act no matter who they were, first timers, or international stars they couldn’t quite believe his introduction so I have to be honest.

You’ve created so many wonderful shows Johnnie, will we ever get a chance to revisit it? The comedians?
I was thinking about that and well a lot of it still stands up today, many might suggest that some of the jokes could be lost on the younger more PC crowd, but it’d be a good test to see how it stood up.

Not many people know you started out as a tribute act.
Oh yes, the tribute act to the brilliant Danny Kaye. I would mine along to a record doing all of his actions, and amazingly get standing ovations, great times but I felt my move to producing and creativity was possibly better well served.

What surprises you most about looking at the wheel tapper show today?
Well apart from the prices of the beer and the food just what a wonderful time we all had, and such great audiences. It does not seem like 50 years to me, but then watching it you forget don’t you, and you live magical times once again.

All the very Best, Love Ann xx

05/08/2025

05/08/2025

Look out for your Rotherham S61 & 63 magazines dropping through your door this week.
We’re thrilled to bring you another issue packed with inspiring stories, exciting giveaways, and the best of what our local area has to offer. As a proud locally owned and run magazine, our mission is simple to celebrate the places, people, and businesses that make our community so special.
In this issue, don’t miss Jon Howe’s captivating feature on Castle Howard, a magnificent Yorkshire landmark steeped in over 300 years of history and architectural brilliance.
We’ve also got not one, but two fantastic competitions for our readers! Treat yourself with a chance to win an exclusive spa morning for two, courtesy of Iveridge Hall, the perfect way to relax and recharge. And with the new school year just around the corner, enter our second giveaway to win a WHSmith voucher to cover all your back-to-school essentials.
As always, thank you for supporting local. Happy reading!
You can also find all our features and much more too on our website
www.titomedialtd.co.uk