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ARTICLES TO READBy Melanie Lloyd
THE BOROUGH COMMANDER AND THE BOXER
As I stood outside Rectory Road Overground Station at 12.45 on a Thursday afternoon in April 2016 waiting for former British & European super-middleweight champion, James Cook MBE, a grey Fiat parked up at the kerb. Two young men emerged from the car and remained...
BILLY AIRD (Former British, Commonwealth & European challenger)
Loveable Liverpudlian, Billy Aird, was born in Merseyside on 15th March 1946. Raised during the post-war years, Billy has only warm memories of his early family life. "I was a war baby, and it was fine. I always got fed, no...
GEORGE HOLLISTER (Former middleweight contender from Islington)
To hear George Hollister tell it, boxing was seemingly something that simply 'happened' to him. Born just prior to the Blitz on 28th June 1940, George confirmed "I had a good upbringing, with my mother and father and...