17 h. ago Horse Racing Betting Sites: Top 10 UK Racing Bookmakers 2025

Compare over 50 licensed and regulated horse racing betting sites and find out which bookmakers get the nod as the best horse racing betting sites for 2025

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17 h. ago Best Betting Sites UK: New & Top Ranked Bookmakers for October 2025

Compare over 60 licensed and regulated betting sites in the UK and read our reviews of the best online bookmakers for October 2025

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61 h. ago Paddy Power Games Bonus: Get 60 Free Spins + 100 More When You Deposit £10

Everything you need to know about the latest welcome bonus from Paddy Power Games, the casino branch of one of the UK’s best-known betting sites

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65 h. ago Best Betting Sites UK: Top New Online Bookmakers in October 2025

Our tipster, sports journalist and betting content producer Chris Wilson reviews UK betting sites and picks out his favourites

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4 d. ago ‘His buildings were always ready for their closeup’: how Terry Farrell’s postmodern exuberance conquered the world

From the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ to TV-am’s eggcups and a Hong Kong tower that featured on a banknote, Farrell strived to make uplifting architecture• ‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building dies – news• Spies, eggcups and penthouses: Farrell’s best buildings – galleryTerry Farrell made his mark on London. All his buildings had a certain postmodernist swagger, but one of his most conspicuous (ironically, in view of its function) was the headquarters of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, on the site of the former Vauxhall pleasure gardens.Completed in 1994, MI6 showed Farrell, who has died aged 87, in his postmodern pomp, energetically juggling historicist motifs to conjure a flamboyant, flesh-coloured fortress, replete with ziggurats and crenellations, dominating its Thames-side locale. Deyan Sudjic described MI6 as “an epitaph for the architecture of the 80s”, and its styling that which “could be interpreted equally plausibly as a Mayan temple or a piece o...

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4 d. ago Female racehorse disqualified over prohibited level of testosterone in ‘unusual’ case

Police Academy, who is trained by Fergal O'Brien, was found to have an elevated level of the male sex hormone after winning a race at Uttoxeter

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4 d. ago Gary Neville changes Premier League title prediction after Arsenal close gap on Liverpool

Gunners took advantage of Liverpool’s loss to Crystal Palace, leading to claims that it will be a two-horse race for the title this season

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7 d. ago Slot sites: Best online slots UK and bonuses for September 2025

The Independent picks out the best slots sites and latest bonuses to help UK bettors get the best online slots experience

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8 d. ago Jockey sacrifices chance in race to go to aid of rival on bolting horse

After spotting Abner Adorno in difficulty on his mount during a race at Parx in Pennsylvania, Mychel Sanchez rode to the other side of the track to bring them to a stop

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9 d. ago Best Betting Sites UK: Top New Online Bookmakers in September 2025

Our tipster, sports journalist and betting content producer Chris Wilson reviews UK betting sites and picks out his favourites

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1 week ago Revealed: The black market betting sites 'cheating' unsuspecting Brits out of thousands

Innocent-looking games are regular phone pop-ups, and while many may think they are harmless, many are being scammed out of thousands of pounds.

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1 week ago Paddy Bradley apologises for 'overconfident' ride as hot favourite clings on for the win

The jockey's horse Deluded was much the best in division two of Wolverhampton's maiden race over seven furlongs, but he was eased down before the line and was almost caught by an outsider

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1 week ago Jason Hart quickens clear without a horse to win jockeys' race at Ayr

The race was sponsored by Ladbrokes and saw the riders break from the stalls like they would when riding. And Hart, who is one of the top ten jockeys in the UK this season, showed them a clean pair of heels

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2 w. ago Horse Racing Betting Sites: Top 10 UK Racing Bookmakers for September 2025

We’ve ranked and reviewed the best horse betting sites UK punters can find in 2025

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2 w. ago Free autumn horse racing tickets to give away with Arena Racing Company

The race events provide great entertainment as well as high quality jumps and flat horse racing spread across the country. You have 11 race events to choose from, from October to November

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2 w. ago Garden of unearthly delights: inside the eerie underground lair for ‘master of mobiles’ Alexander Calder

The great kinetic artist has never been properly celebrated in his home town of Philadelphia – until now. But is a $90m subterranean labyrinth, created by Herzog & de Meuron, really the answer?A shimmering metallic wall slices through a scrubby mound on the edge of a highway in Philadelphia, like a long steel blade cutting into the earth. Halfway along its length, this silvery barrier flips up, recalling the lid of a giant laptop, forming an entrance canopy that beckons you inside. As you ascend the planted knoll, you find great furrows gouged into the ground, jagged concrete sinkholes from which the peaks of colourful sculptures protrude.Welcome to Calder Gardens, an otherworldly place conceived by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron to celebrate the work of Philadelphia-born Alexander Calder, master of mobiles. It is one of the strangest cultural complexes to be built anywhere in recent years. On an unpromising site no larger than a football pitch, wedged between two highw...

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2 w. ago Piastri and Norris ‘in control of own destiny’ in F1 world championship battle

Piastri says drivers not team will decide outcome of titleComments follow controversial swap imposed by teamOscar Piastri has insisted that he and his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris, are in control of their own destiny as they fight for the Formula One world championship after the pair were involved in a highly controversial swap imposed by the team at the Italian Grand Prix.Given the pair are in a two-horse race for the title, the question of team orders playing a potentially decisive role loomed large after Monza. Max Verstappen won the race but McLaren’s decision to have Piastri return second place to Norris, after the British driver lost the position due to a slow pit stop caused by a faulty wheel gun, was contentious. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stewards sacked after investigation found they placed hundreds of bets on horse races

Five officials, including the acting chief thoroughbred steward, were betting on races over a two and a half year period, in some cases in races which led to inquiries they were oversaw

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3 w. ago Rio Ferdinand changes Arsenal title prediction three games into the season

A possible three-horse race has turned into two clear frontrunners

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3 w. ago Newsboy’s horseracing tips for Friday’s four meetings, including six races live on ITV

Newsboy fancies Sweet William to win his second Doncaster Cup on Friday and also expects Revival Power to score in the Flying Childers Stakes

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