GUISBOROUGH Town Council met in May for a virtual meeting, but held a full council meeting with members present in June at Sunnyfield House.
Cycling Event. Stephen Mussett, community health development co-ordinator at Redcar and Cleveland Council, and Andy Langford, community traffic agent for SweetSpot Event Group, addressed the council about the forthcoming cycle race for elite riders to take place in Guisborough on Sunday, August 8. The Tour Series will involve the UK’s leading cyclists and teams racing through the streets of Guisborough on a fast and technical 1.34km route. As well the cycle race, sporting and community activities will take place on Westgate from midday. The Tour series opens in Guisborough before subsequent rounds in Sunderland and Castle Douglas and is expected to attract large crowds. The race will start at 3pm and finish in Westgate near to the Bow Street traffic lights and compete on closed roads on a circuit up Church Street, Redcar Road, left on to Wa
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Rotorua team set to take on GodZone in their own backyard
2 Mar, 2021 11:41 PM
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GodZone team In our Element includes Andrew Hickson (left), Neil Kerrison, Georgie Griffiths and Rob Griffiths. Photo / Supplied
Rotorua Daily Post
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Adventure racers from around New Zealand are set to tackle the world s largest expedition race – GodZone Chapter 9 in Rotorua – from Thursday, with more than a dozen competitors from our own backyard.
The course, which includes native forests, hot and cold lakes, volcanic landscapes and complex river systems, has been designed with the potential of alert level 2 in mind.
The nine-day mission has been created to push every competitor to their limits – even those who are most familiar with the Bay of Plenty s challenging terrain.
Bridgerton: Repression & Pleasure
Shonda Rhimes’ Regency-era romp,
Bridgerton, has well and truly superseded any label of being simply a ‘guilty pleasure’. Unlike some of its period drama predecessors,
Bridgerton has a hell of a lot of influence, with spades of think pieces being written (much like this one), rumours of eight seasons filling Facebook feeds and Netflix declaring that the show is its biggest series ever, with eighty-two million households globally watching it within the first month of its release after Christmas day.
Though
Bridgerton may not be a guilty pleasure, the show certainly generated a lot of pleasure, and perhaps guilt. Both viewers and characters were addicted to scintillating ‘romantic scenes’– think three-minute sex montage, lavish interiors and costuming, as well as just the right number of dramatic entrances and exits at each visually spectacular ball. However, whilst watching the show I couldn’t help questioning whether I should