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The BBC Philharmonic bring their latest production, Bluebeard's Castle, to the Royal Concert Hall...

Left Stag: Dave Smith, Sandy Pate and Anglo Scottish Adventures in Ayr

Sat 24 Jan 2026

With Burns Night on the horizon on Sunday 25 January, we invited our regular Notts County, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest football columnists to muse on the influence of Scotland in the history of their own clubs…

Below, Josh Osoro Pickering - our Mansfield Town specialist - tells a Mansfield-set story of Anglo-Scottish sport...

Below, Julian McDougall - our Notts County specialist - gives his take...

Riding high: the triumph and tragedy of Tom Simpson

Fri 23 Jan 2026

Six thousand feet up a mountain in southern France, surrounded by a pitiless landscape of sun-bleached rocks, stands a stone memorial to a Nottinghamshire man. Professional cyclist Tom Simpson collapsed and died there in 1967, creating a sporting legend still being kept alive by his family back home. As an annual festival in his memory grows into a week of Simpson-mania, Chris Breese pedals off in search of how a skinny miner's son from Bassetlaw created a legacy still being lauded from Lowdham to Leuven.