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An overturned lorry at Switch Island is causing traffic problems on the M58 and surrounding roads. Merseyside Police rushed to Switch Island, Aintree, at around 6.21pm on Friday, July 29., following reports of a crash. Once at the scene officers found a lorry had overturned. The North West Ambulance Service …

Film scriptwriters couldn’t even dream up the tale of the 1981 Grand National. So they didn’t bother – they just took the story and made it into a film. While Elizabeth Taylor’s National Velvet used the world’s greatest steeplechase in the plot of the 1945 movie, the story of Bob …