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From Spectator LifeThe final classic of the flat season, the Betfred St Leger Stakes, takes places at Doncaster tomorrow (3.35 p.m.) and Irish handler Joseph O’Brien has an excellent chance of landing yet another big prize. The jockey-turned-trainer son of the legend that is Aidan O’Brien has enjoyed a stellar season so far, plundering plenty of big races on both sides of the Irish Sea. Tomorrow his best chance of landing the Group 1 St Leger lies with Enceladus, who is likely to go off as the race favourite. Enceladus is unbeaten in three starts this season including winning the Group 3 Maison Perrier Gordon Stakes at Glorious Goodwood last time out.
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John Healey stood in front of two giant robotic arms this week and promised to ‘make Great Britain Growth Britain again’. The Chancellor also promised, borrowing a catchphrase from his neighbour in No. 10, to deliver ‘good growth in every postcode’. In the North Sea, 150 miles east off the coast of Aberdeen, lies the first big test of this promise. The 6,000-ton Jackdaw extraction platform is ready to start pumping gas from a field three miles below the surface. Twenty years after the Jackdaw field was first successfully prospected, it will, at the stroke of a ministerial pen, finally be allowed to operate.
Labour must go further and faster in the North Sea
John Healey stood in front of two giant robotic arms this week and promised to ‘make Great Britain Growth Britain again’. The Chancellor also promised, borrowing a catchphrase from his neighbour in No. 10, to deliver ‘good growth in every postcode’. In the North Sea, 150 miles east off the coast of Aberdeen, lies the first big test of this promise. The 6,000-ton Jackdaw extraction platform is ready to start pumping gas from a field three miles below the surface. Twenty years after the Jackdaw field was first successfully prospected, it will, at the stroke of a ministerial pen, finally be allowed to operate.
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