Leisure Archive
(September 2020)

1 September 2020

The Game Fair rescheduled

Under guidance by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, The Game Fair will now not take place on the September 2020 dates as planned. The event will take place 23rd–25th July 2021, when it returns to Ragley Hall. “It is with great regret that I have had to make this decision,” said James Read more…

Highly coveted gold award for Stamford horse breeder

Kelly Hetherington achieved the coveted ‘Gold’ award in the British Breeding/Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity Evaluations after entering for the first time with her three-year-old gelding Britannia Rocks. The gelding achieved a score of 8.125 for its eventing valuation from the panel of international judges, who commented that he was a very harmonious and powerful horse Read more…

For the love of dogs

Matt Limb OBE meets a young Lincolnshire woman who has worked dogs all her life, including on military operations in Afghanistan. The quiet but confident nature when you meet Jasmin, best known to everyone as Jazz, can be deceptive. Behind that reserved but happy smile is a person who has achieved so much in such Read more…

New Renault Zoe Review

The updated Renault Zoe is recharged and refreshed for 2020 and even comes with an attractive price tag and an officially recorded range well over 200 miles. Realistically, if you can get, say, 233 miles on a single charge in the summer and 150 miles in the battery-draining colder months, then you’ll be doing alright Read more…

Honda e and Fireblade take centre stage

Award-winning Honda e and CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP inducted into world-renowned Red Dot Design Museum. Honda’s next-generation electric car, the Honda e, and CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP superbike have been inducted into the historic Red Dot Design Museum, one of the world’s most significant exhibitions of contemporary design. The Honda e also takes centre stage in the Read more…

A new dawn for Morgan Motor Company

Introducing the next iteration of their core model, the all-new Morgan Plus Four. Representing a revolutionary successor to the Plus 4. Now, 70 years after the first Plus 4 rolled off the production line at Morgan’s Pickersleigh Road factory in Malvern, a new chapter begins. DESIGN & DYNAMICS The Plus Four is based on the Read more…

Range Rover at 50

Range Rover marks half a century of all-terrain innovation and luxury with exclusive new limited edition. Range Rover celebrates 50 years of pioneering innovation, peerless refinement and unparalleled all-terrain capability with the introduction of the new Range Rover Fifty. The original luxury SUV has defined the market since 17 June 1970 and, five decades on, Read more…

MG named as best value brand

MG has been named as the Best Value Brand 2020, according to a consumer vote featuring the views of over 181,000 car owners for the fourth annual Auto Trader New Car Awards. As consumers continue to seek the best new car that they can get for their money, survey respondents highlighted MG’s overall value, with Read more…

Ford Mustang Mach-E review

For the first time in over half a century, Ford is growing the Mustang family, bringing the celebrated pony into the electric era with the all-new Mustang Mach-E. And guess what? It’s an SUV. When it officially arrives in the UK later this year, the Mach-E will come with standard and extended-range battery options. It’ll Read more…

Lexus RX 450hL Review

Sport utility vehicles have been the flavour of the decade in the UK. Some are as bland as gluten-free crackers – but they don’t have to be like this. Lexus has come up with a formula to make SUVs mouth-watering. The carmaker would have to silence me forever (gulp!) if it told me what the Read more…