The inspiration for the name of the restaurant came from the character Long John Silver, the pirate villain in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 novel "Treasure Island." The combination of ...

1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and also held the world record, has died at the age of 88. Hopkins lived in Canada for many ...

At the 1956 Olympic Games, a 26-year-old Bell jumped 7.83m in challenging conditions to win by 15cm ahead of his compatriot John Bennett. Bell went on to secure silver at the Pan American Games in ...

she broke the world high jump record, took a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics, and won titles and broke records in the long jump, pentathlon and 80 metres hurdles – as well as playing ...

In 1954 she won high jump gold and long jump silver when representing Northern Ireland at the Empire Games in Vancouver – the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games. Later in the same summer ...

Three years later, she clinched high jump gold and long jump silver when representing Northern Ireland at the then Empire Games in Vancouver. Later in the same summer, Hopkins won the high jump ...