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The Sun
09-07-2025
- The Sun
One of the best beer gardens in Cornwall sits on the ‘world's most beautiful road'
CORNWALL is known for its beautiful scenery as well as beautiful boozers - and one of the best is The Tinners Arms. Found in the village of Zennor, The Tinners Arms has been picked out as having one of the gardens to enjoy a beer in the sunshine. 4 4 The Tinners Arms has been around for over 700 years and was first built in 1271. Punters will find it the small village of Zennor and along what has been called the 'world's most beautiful road' by CornwallLive. This is the stretch of road between St Ives and Land's End, at the very tip of Cornwall. Along the route, drivers and walkers along the South West Coast Path will get views of the stunning Cornish beaches and rolling countryside. As for The Tinners Arms, it's been highlighted for it's beautiful beer garden too, which has been called one of the best to have a drink on a summers day. In the walled garden filled with bright flowers and greenery is lots of picnic tables and even more fantastic views. For ale drinkers, The Tinners Arms sells "legendary Tinners and Mermaid Ales" and "refreshing Zennor lager". Other drinks include wine, craft lagers and ciders from local vineyards like Polgoon Penzance or Godrevy Gold from St. Ives. The popularity of the pub has been confirmed by Tripadvisor where the pub has over 400 'excellent' rated reviews. One visitor wrote: "A very welcome rest stop after walking the South West Coast Path from St Ives. Friendly service, great location, good beer." Another added: "Popped in for dinner whilst on a road trip and discovered a hidden gem. Had a couple of drinks and food. Both were outstanding." Pub With A 'Floating' Beer Garden By The Beach 4 One even took a pit stop while going along the beautiful road: "We stopped off on our way around the gorgeous Lands End to St Ives road and are so glad we did and found this wonderful, cosy, really old Cornish pub." The Tinners Arms has plenty of food too and are known for serving very fresh fish which has come in from Newlyn fishing port, so here's lots of fresh crab and mackerel dishes. The village of Zennor is famous for its local mermaid legend and even has carvings depicting the myth on the side of St. Senara's Church. Zennor was also one of the last places where traditional Cornish was spoken. There's also a floating beer garden in Cornwall, at the Pandora Inn, where picnic tables float on a pontoon that sits out on the Restronguet Creek in Falmouth. It goes up and down with the tide meaning that in high tide, punters can literally sit on the water. The 13th century inn even has its own mooring pontoon where people can park their boats. In 2023, the pub was included among eight other pubs listed by The Times for its unique setting to enjoy a pint. And one of the UK's oldest beach bars to open new rooftop terrace in time for summer. Plus, the best riverside pubs across the UK including a moored boat and one 'that feels like the south of France.
BBC News
07-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Banstead man cycles length of Britain in memory of his late wife
A man who lost his wife to septic shock has completed a charity cycle ride the length of Channevy Walsh, from Banstead, Surrey, was part of a team which rode from Land's End to John O'Groats, completing the 994-mile (1,600km) journey on nine-day ride has so far raised over £35,000 for the UK Sepsis Trust and Versus wife Anne, who was 48, died in September 2024 when she developed the condition after surgery. She also lived with arthritis, and helped the charity Versus Arthritis by reviewing research a condition in which the immune system reacts so violently to an infection it begins to damage its own body, is thought to be responsible for the deaths of five people an hour in the UK.
The Independent
30-06-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
William gets ball rolling to help Mousehole AFC replace pot-hole ridden road
The Prince of Wales has stepped in to help a Cornish football team struggling with access to their club down a pothole-ridden lane. Mousehole AFC, located close to Land's End in the tiny village of Paul, were facing traffic congestion, damaged vehicles and logistical headaches for visiting teams and supporters. Football fan William, who is also patron of the FA, took action after reading in The Guardian last year that the most westerly club in the English leagues was rising up the ranks despite its practical woes. He helped bring together a coalition of people to solve the problem, with construction work due to begin this week on a new road. William, an Aston Villa devotee, pledged to visit the Cornish club soon, saying: 'I have seen time and time again that community hubs are essential in providing the spaces for people to come together, to build stronger communities and to allow people to thrive. 'It is a privilege to be able to help the local community access Mousehole AFC. I'd like to personally add my thanks for all the hard work that's gone into making it happen. 'I look forward to seeing the new road for myself as soon as I can.' The heir to the throne's private secretary Ian Patrick revealed at the annual Duchy of Cornwall financial briefing on Monday: 'These people weren't being heard. 'You know they needed an access road, and there was no one championing their cause, and the prince very, very directly decided to champion their cause.' He added: 'They were facing a serious issue: a narrow, pothole-ridden access road was causing problems for the club as well as the local community. 'So the prince wanted to see what can be done, and has helped bring together a coalition of people to solve the problem.' Mr Patrick said the new road would solve the transport issue, and also allow the club to expand while supporting sports, social and cultural events in the wider community. The football club is not on Duchy of Cornwall land but it is in a remote Cornish community that the prince – who is the Duke of Cornwall – wanted to personally support. The prince and his Duchy of Cornwall estate worked with CRH, a building materials group, to see if they could help develop a lasting solution. The construction, which also includes new parking facilities, is taking place at no cost to the club, after contributions from a number of businesses and the generosity of local landowner Paul Pond, who has granted access to part of his land. The new road is expected to be completed in time for the start of Mousehole AFC's 2025/26 season in the Pitching In Southern League Division One South in August. The Guardian reported last year that the club had been attracting talented young players from London and other big cities despite being located down a bumpy, potholed track. Mousehole (pronounced mowzel) is home to about 500 people, but its team is playing against towns with populations that are 50 times that size.
Daily Mail
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Rosemary Shrager bitten by an adder after falling into a bush during 'foolhardy' 450-mile bike ride - leaving leg ‘black and yellow' with its venom
Rosemary Shrager recalled the moment she was bitten by an adder after she fell into a bush during a 450-mile bike ride. The TV chef featured on Monday's instalment of Loose Women and joined panellists Ruth Langsford, Linda Robson, Oti Mabuse and Katie Piper. She recently completed a whopping bike ride called Two Wheels For Meals and rode for 18 days all the way from Land's End to Dover to raise funds to donate to food poverty charities. To prepare for the big ride, Rosemary trained and worked on her fitness, but she 'kept falling off her bike'. Things took a turn when she fell onto an unsuspecting snake while cycling in Cornwall. 'I fell onto an adder and it did bite me... on my leg,' Rosemary recalled. 'The problem was I didn't dare tell anyone, this was in Cornwall I fell into a hedge and my leg went into the grass and I literally fell on the adder.' She added: 'It just obviously didn't like me, it bit me.' However, the TV chef revealed she didn't tell anyone as she wanted to continue the journey. 'But I didn't want to tell anyone because I had to get from that destination to that destination everyday it was sometimes 55 miles, sometimes 48, it was a lot,' Rosemary said. The bite mark on her leg turned yellow and she even developed a 'black line'. She described: 'Basically I had to make it. I thought if I told them, then in the evening I saw it and it was that big, it was yellow, two prongs in my leg with a black line about that thick all the way around it and I couldn't believe it and I thought no, I'm not going to say anything I'm just going to carry on.' Ruth asked: 'Weren't you worried it had poisoned you or something?' To prepare for the big ride, Rosemary trained and worked on her fitness, but she 'kept falling off her bike' But Rosemary revealed she wasn't too concerned as she was aware adder bites usually aren't dangerous to most people. 'I wasn't because I do know the adders in this country, you can't really die from the bite but you can become quite ill,' She explained. 'If you do have an adder bite, go to hospital straight away. I was foolhardy because I was on this mission and I knew they'd take me off the challenge and if they had taken me off the challenge I would have never had made it.' According to The Wildlife Trusts, the adder is the UK's only venomous snake and is typically only dangerous to ill, very young or old people. They urge anyone bitten to seek medical attention immediately. Rosemary wrote in The Daily Mail earlier this month how she lost three stone from changing her lifestyle for the bike ride. 'Nine months after I started training, I'm more than three stone lighter and four dress sizes smaller,' she said. However, she revealed it wasn't just exercise that helped her to shed the pounds, a weight loss jab. Rosemary penned: 'And while I can credit perseverance plus the support of a personal trainer and cycling partner, I have something else to thank for my achievements – Ozempic.' Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV1 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm and is available to stream on ITVX.
The Guardian
25-06-2025
- Climate
- The Guardian
‘Life is brutal. Running helps': the 17-year-old who faced despair – and ran the length of Britain
Day three of Marcus Skeet's epic run from Land's End to John o'Groats was a low point. It had been a sunny April morning when he set off. Marcus was in shorts and a T-shirt – bright yellow so he could be easily seen running beside the A30. But then, 18 miles (29km) in and just a few miles before the end of the day's leg, it started to rain. 'Absolutely bucketing down, then hailing really heavily, hailstones right into my face.' Marcus, who had been sweating, got cold very quickly. He tried to call his friend Harry, who had gone ahead in the support car to check in to that night's Airbnb, to get him to come back with a coat, but the phone had got wet and wasn't working. He managed to reach a layby where there was a breakdown van. He asked the driver if he would make a call for him (Marcus didn't know Harry's number from memory, but he knew his mum's, and she could ring Harry). 'And he looks at me and goes: 'Mate, I'm working, bore off.'' The breakdown man drove away. As did the car he had been attending to – they didn't even open their window when Marcus knocked on it. Maybe they were frightened, he suggests: 'It probably looked really weird because I was crying at this point. 'I sat down, I was really cold, I started getting the shivers, and I was like: I can't do this. I was screaming, asking for my mum, my grandma, all the family. There were all these cars going by but no one stopped.' Eventually, a lorry driver pulled up, got Marcus into the cab to warm up, dry off, dry the phone and call Harry to come and pick him up. The following day, he and Harry returned and Marcus started from the layby. There were still 56 days to go, and about 790 miles. It was a low point of the challenge, but there had been lower points in Marcus's life. From the age of about 11 to his mid-teens, Marcus was hit with a salvo of diagnoses, physical and mental: type 2 diabetes, depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. The OCD caused him to have intrusive thoughts: 'At some points it took me an hour to get out of the house, because I had to put my foot in the right place or think the right thing. A 10-minute trip to the shops would end up taking a couple of hours because if I didn't do the right thing at the right time, tap a wall however many times or whatever, I was going to die. I was really badly suffering.' On top of that (and certainly a contributing factor, he says), Marcus's dad, Philip, was diagnosed with dementia. His mum, Jayne, had to add caring duties to her full-time job, and Marcus added the role of young carer to everything else he was dealing with. How did all of the above affect school for Marcus? 'You either really enjoy school, or you go through a horrible time, and I experienced a bit of both. I enjoyed it in certain parts …' he begins, before interrupting himself seamlessly, with perfect comic timing. 'That's a lie, no I didn't.' 'I was going to say, I must have missed that day,' Jayne chips in, reminding him that his attendance was roughly 3% one year, and 0% the next. We are in the living room of the family home in Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire. It doubles as Jayne's office; she has cut down to 16 hours' work a week, from home, in order to look after Philip. He is here, too, sitting in an armchair in the corner, less present mentally now that the dementia is quite advanced. Also present, in separate cages, are two rabbits, Oreo and Booper – brothers apparently, although they look very different and, says Marcus: 'They really don't like each other.' Hence the separate cages, and the evil eyes. Marcus is dead funny. It is evident on his YouTube channel where he posts football videos as Thehullboy about his beloved Tigers, Hull City FC. And from some of his social media posts from the Land's End to John o'Groats challenge: taking on a herd of deer in a running race (Bambis 1, Marcus 0), then cattle (same result, Marcus admits he's not the quickest). And he was funny when he told Naga Munchetty and 6 million BBC Breakfast viewers that he had popped into Lidl for a sneaky poo. He also speaks with a thoughtfulness and an eloquence that belie his age. It is hard to believe he only turned 17 in February. He talks about his mental health with an honesty and openness that has to be helpful, to himself and to others. In December 2023, aged 15, Marcus attempted suicide, after which he 'had an overwhelming feeling of guilt, and regret, that to me shows that deep down I still did want to be here'. He has a message about that. 'Life is brutal, sometimes you feel like you're in a place you can't get out of. But I promise you, every road may have speed bumps but you'll get over them. Mental health is such a big thing, everyone is different but I find running helps mine.' Marcus never liked running before. Hated it in fact. 'I always had a lot of anxiety when it came to running in front of people. I was always quite on the tubby side of things. I felt they would laugh at me. Any time at school, whether running or in PE, I used to fake injury or illness.' But after the suicide attempt, he started – a walk first, then a longer walk. 'And I realised how beautiful nature was, and I thought to myself: 'You know what, I can't run but I want to give this a go. I'm going to run one mile a day.'' So that's what he did, a mile a day. He posted about it on social media. Marcus, who had weighed 145kg (22st 11lb), lost three or four kilos that first month. 'I kept going up in distance,' he says. 'You can become obsessed with the process but that's what makes it proper.' Marcus hooked up with Russ Cook, nicknamed 'the Hardest Geezer', who has run the entire length of Africa. Cook had seen what Marcus was doing and sent him a message of encouragement. They made contact and Cook helped Marcus with his training, to build up the distance. They ran a marathon together, round and round Hyde Park in London. Marcus raised some money for the mental health charity Mind, which he had contacted before. 'When I was at my lowest, I rang them. They were really helpful.' Mind was also helpful to Philip, who was diagnosed with depression before being diagnosed with dementia. 'I feel I've always wanted to give back what they've done,' Marcus says. The marathon, and the ultramarathon that followed, were always going to be stepping stones to the big one Marcus had set his sights on. On 1 April this year, he set off from Land's End. 'I remember that first hour of the run, just jogging away, and I was like: 'Yeah, this is really it, I am running the entire length of the country.' It was magical.' It wasn't wall-to-wall magic the length of Britain. There was the hailstone battering and layby meltdown just a couple of days later, but then it became routine. 'I didn't see it as a chore, but it was just very repetitive. Me and Harry had our ups and downs, we both lost our minds a bit.' Harry, 'an absolute legend' whom Marcus met at a Liam Gallagher concert, quit his job to come and drive the support car, organise their accommodation, cook and get Marcus up and running in the morning (not always easy). Some weekends, Jayne would drive Philip in the family car to wherever they had got to, to give Harry a break. The support car Marcus and Harry were using was donated by the company Jayne works for, but then they crashed it. That was another low point. After that, Jayne's brother lent them an old truck he had on his farm. Everything else – accommodation, food, fuel – went on Jayne's credit card. She now has a £15,000 bill to pay off. Then there was the physical exhaustion. Marcus remembers one 27-mile day: 'I was in the middle of the countryside somewhere, trying to find Harry, and I was like: if you can do this, run through this when your legs are going through the worst pain you've ever felt, you can do anything.' Then, looking at me, he adds: 'And I can get out of bed, come downstairs and do an interview with you.' Was that difficult? 'I do get nervous sometimes,' he admits. 'Going on the BBC was nerve-racking.' But today was mainly hard because he had been up till dawn, with mates, in a field. There were loads of good times on the challenge, too: the scenery, Wales, the Lakes, Scotland. Marcus ran mainly alongside A and B roads, headphones on, listening to Oasis, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Sam Fender, a lot of indie stuff, but then a whole day listening to Brazilian rap. Also true crime podcasts. 'The Moors Murders. I was running past Bolton, thinking: 'I'm near this!' That's a bit odd.' Were the Lidl toilets a highlight? Would he recommend them? 'Do you know what? I would. I think Lidl toilets are brilliant. There were loads of Lidls, loads of Asdas, also Waitrose toilets, quite nice … When you need to go you need to go.' As well as the few not-so-great people who didn't stop or drove off when he needed them, he met a lot of really great ones, who invited him in, fed him, donated. On the way into Warrington, he says: 'This guy just came bombing down the road, he had a massive beard and a hat, and he runs up to me, shakes my hand, is like [adopting I think a quite decent scouse accent]: 'Hello mate, how ya doing, I'm Rob.' Sorry, that's a horrible scouse accent,' he says. (He means his, not Rob's.) 'We were just talking, and he's the English Forrest Gump. It was the ultramarathon runner Rob Pope. You can search him up, he's quite famous. He ran across America five times.' Marcus was joined for a day by Colson Smith, who was PC Craig Tinker in Coronation Street. Sir Mo Farah sent him a message on X: 'Keep going champ. Anything is possible.' An invitation to the pub in Lockerbie turned into one of the best evenings of Marcus's life. 'The people were so lovely.' The first sign to John o'Groats was a highlight; that's when it sunk in that he was actually going to do it. He had a special playlist for the last few miles, including Lover, You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley, Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline (his dad's favourite), and finally his own favourite, Live Forever by Oasis. His mum and dad were there, of course, to cheer him over the line. Aged 17-and-a-quarter, and after 58 days, he had become, on 29 May, the youngest person to run the length of the UK – 874 miles. Plus £111,000 raised for Mind … That was then. A couple of weeks later and it's £156,000 … £157,000 Jayne corrects, showing his GoFundMe page on her phone. It will probably be more by the time you read this. Sarah Hughes, chief executive officer of Mind, said it was also a record for a single fundraising activity for Mind. 'What Marcus has achieved is nothing short of extraordinary. We cannot thank him enough for pushing himself to the limit. We hope what Marcus has achieved inspires other young people to make a positive difference in other people's lives and encourages anyone struggling to be open about their mental health. Every pound he raised will make a real difference.' On pounds he lost, Marcus now weighs around 109kg. It's been tough, since finishing, though: 'I've had a comedown, that was always gonna happen. But it's all about learning how to deal with that. It was such a buzz, the sense of freedom.' It is good to be back home, seeing mates, going to gigs; he bought himself an electric guitar and is trying to learn to play it. 'Keeping my head busy because, deep down, I do miss the challenge,' he says. On the plus side, he doesn't have to run 20 miles a day. He took a couple of weeks off, to recover, now he's getting back into it, slowly. Five miles, six miles. Any plans? 'I'm not going to do anything crazy for a while. I obviously want to do America, things like that.' Do America, what does that mean? 'Run across, left to right or right to left, 4,000 miles, why not?' And he laughs. Run, Marcus, run. In the UK, the charity Mind is available on 0300 123 3393. Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@ (in Ireland jo@ In the US, call or text Mental Health America at 988 or chat You can text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, support is available at Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, Lifeline on 13 11 14, and at MensLine on 1300 789 978. Other international helplines can be found at
