Lucky that wasn’t a greyhound race!!!!Euler wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:55 pmScenes at Dundalk this evening....
https://twitter.com/garyhalpin20/status ... 2504117248
Would have been something out of Step Toe & Son, without the glasses.
Lucky that wasn’t a greyhound race!!!!Euler wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:55 pmScenes at Dundalk this evening....
https://twitter.com/garyhalpin20/status ... 2504117248
BBC4 documentary about this was good:
From some of your recent comments in the tennis thread, I have a pretty good ideaDerek27 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:06 amJust stumbled across a mildly amusing tennis video (don't ask what I was searching for).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVMe-dnR0R4
It is rather timely this program is on BBC1 again tonight given the news today about Princess Haya:megarain wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 2:07 pmPDC wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:55 amThis program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:
Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess
In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.
This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws
Talking to locals immigrants, who work there (by choice), its not a nice place.
Not all members of the Royal family are nice people.