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Brian Viner

Brian Viner swapped London for the Herefordshire countryside, and his column ‘Country Life’ documents his attempts to chase the rural idyll. Chiefly a sports writer, he pens a weekly sports column and interview for the paper. He is the author of 'Ali, Pele, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies'.

Bannister just after his record-breaking run at the University of Oxford’s Iffley Road track in Oxford

Sir Roger Bannister: Runner who achieved the first four-minute mile

Michael Owen: 'When your horse wins, it’s relief more than adrenalin. But it’s just as addictive'

Michael Owen: Hooked on the horses

How tourism got lost in the Bermuda triangle

Divided: Snooker or gardening?

Green baize takes on the green-fingered