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Sunday 19 May 2013

Jumpers' bumpers day at Kempton

THE British Horseracing Authority have announced an all-weather 'jumpers' bumpers' card at Kempton on Sunday.

An additional six-race meeting has been devised following a raft of abandonments which has this week decimated the racing calendar.

The wet weather is also threatening further fixtures ahead of a busy weekend schedule.

Saturday's meeting at Bangor has already been abandoned due to flooding. Officials at the Welsh circuit made the decision following a course inspection this morning.

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If ever a band has been well served by the literary world it's The Beatles. Practically every aspect of that revolutionary body of work has been dealt with in book form... or so one would have thought. From Hunter Davies' The Beatles, through Philip Norman's Shout, Bob Spitz's humongously detailed history and Ian McDonald's brilliant Revolution in the Head, which offered a musical and contextual analysis of every song they ever recorded, surely there's nothing left of interest to diehard fans of the Fabs. Well, think again.