Map Of Cheltenham Links

Missoula's royal triumph puts Smith on map (Times Online)

Two weeks on, and Suzy Smith has come back down to earth. Time to get on with making her small stable on the Sussex Downs pay its way. Time to refocus, though never forgetting that day when her first runner at Royal Ascot produced her first winner.

O'Malley, team defend sale of former troubled youth facility (Baltimore Examiner)

Gov. Martin O'Malley and his juvenile services team defended their decision Wednesday to allow the sale of the former Bowling Brook youth facility in Carroll to a for-profit Nevada firm that runs juvenile detention centers.

State eyes selling Bowling Brook to Nevada-based Rite of Passage (Baltimore Examiner)

At today's Board of Public Works meeting, the state is proposing to sell the former Bowling Brook juvenile facility where a youth died in custody this past year to a Nevada-based group that runs juvenile facilities.

From East to West, Girard Avenue is the center of a flurry of entrepreneurial moxie (Philly.com)

BIG DREAMS aren't exactly new to Girard Avenue. Way back in the 1820s, the street's namesake, Stephen Girard, had the grand vision to build a monumental boarding school for fatherless boys.

The British are still lovers of liberty (Times Online)

My wife, Gillian, is the chairman of the trustees of St John's Smith Square. Last Thursday evening, the hall was being used for the BBC's Question Time. We were watching the discussion from the balcony; David Dimbleby kindly invited us to supper after the show.