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ONE TRUE KING (4.00 Hereford)

He has winning form at this level and was a solid third in the pointing field last time out.

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BEN SOLO (2.00 Hereford)

He scored on hurdles debut at went close at Ffos Las latest when the bottomless ground just stretched his stamina.

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He has shown promise since switching to hurdles and followed a Kempton win with close second at Huntingdon latest.

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“What the f*** am I doing here? Why am I doing this?” the former NHS care assistant cursed as he was shaken awake by four huge explosions on Ukraine’s frontline.

Moments later as smoke and falling debris cleared, a cacophony of sirens, car alarms and cries from wounded soldiers and civilians filled the air.

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It was a sound all too familiar to the 25-year-old medic from south east England honoured with a special nickname by comrades for saving lives for nearly three years in the trenches.

It was time for “Doc Brit” to conquer his fear yet again and go to work.

The bespectacled young hero – who we cannot identify – was an NHS healthcare assistant working on hospital wards when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, 2022.

Watching Vladimir Putin’s forces’ brutal invasion on TV news, he suddenly felt compelled to help Ukraine and volunteered to join a humanitarian convoy heading to Kyiv.

Former Army cadet “Doc” – whose dad was an SAS medic and mum was an army truck driver – volunteered to become a frontline paramedic

And after nearly three years of carnage that followed, he revealed he has both saved – and taken – lives as a medic and rifleman at the sharp end of Vladimir Putin’s war.

He told The Sun: “I’m primarily a combat paramedic now but Ukraine is so short of soldiers I take part in assaults as well.

“I’m from a big military family and was in the Army Cadets from the age of 10-18, where I learned to handle weapons.

“I now carry an M4 assault rifle or a Kalashnikov into battles and open fire when I have to.

“I can’t be sure that I’ve ever actually killed a Russian but it’s very likely that I have during firefights.

“It’s not something I want to do but in those situations it’s ‘us of them’ – I’ve opened fire on undergrowth where they’re shooting from and kept firing till they stopped.

“But there’s no time to stop and do body counts – you have to keep moving forward if you can.”

Doc joined forces with two other Brit volunteer medics in Ukraine at the start of the war and stayed on after his pals both decided to return to the safety of their old lives.

I’m needed here much more than the NHS needs me back home

The doctor

But he has since forged close links with a battle-hardened group of foreign fighters dubbed The Chosen Company, who specialise in assaulting Russian trenches.

The unit – comprising Britons, Americans, Australians and recruits from across Europe – has posted graphic video of bloody firefights.

And Doc admitted he has come to question why he has fought on after losing six pals – including his best friend – in the continuing “meat grinder” carnage.

He told The Sun: “There’s not a day I don’t ask myself: ‘Why don’t I just go home and watch all of this on my phone or the telly like everyone else?’

“But then I realise I’m needed here much more than the NHS needs me back home.

“It’s been painful losing so many close friends over the past couple of years – three were killed by Russian drones, two by mortars and another was captured and executed.

“My best mate was an ex-US Marines machine gunner called Lance who was killed by a drone last year…he was 28.

“We bonded because we shared the same sense of humour and kept smiling through so many close shaves – but he got unlucky and his time was up.

“It’s a risk we all run out here but if we don’t fight, who else will hold the line against the Russians?”

Doc reckons he has saved dozens of lives treating battlefield trauma wounds under fire.

He said: “I’m always extra cautious going into battle because I know that if I get hit I won’t be able to treat anyone else – and may not be able to treat myself.

“I can never be sure whether my seriously wounded casualties make it – my job is to stabilise them before they’re evacuated to a field hospital.

I ran towards the wounded and found a soldier sitting upright with his right leg missing from above the knee – it was lying about ten feet away from him

The doctor

“But I’ve treated so many battlefield casualties I’d like to think I’ve saved dozens of lives in the time I’ve been here.

“I’ve treated soldiers but also a lot of civilians – the Russians don’t care who they kill.”

Doc has witnessed unimaginable horrors with both the Chosen Company and his previous unit, a volunteer battalion of Ukraine’s 49th Infantry Brigade dubbed “The Suicide Squad.”

But his worst single mass casualty event was an attack in the Kharkiv region town of Barvinkove early in the war – when four Russian bombs tore into a busy street.

He said: “I was about 300 metres away when four huge explosions erupted and knew it was very bad.

“It’s hard to imagine the chaos until you see it – smoke, flames, people with terrible wounds crying out and body parts everywhere.

“I ran towards the wounded and found a soldier sitting upright with his right leg missing from above the knee – it was lying about ten feet away from him.

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“He was silent and in shock and I knew he would bleed to death if I didn’t act quickly so I applied a tourniquet and ran on to the next casualty.

“The second man I got to had been peppered with shrapnel and was in agony with deep holes up one side of his body – I packed his wounds then ran on to the next…

“That was a guy with horrendous burns to his face and chest – it was like a horror movie.”

Doc said he applied six or seven life-saving tourniquets that day as he dashed among dead and dying trying to prioritise scores of casualties.

But nothing could prepare him for the sight of one man he found amid the bloodbath who’d had half his face blown off.

Doc said: “I’m obviously not squeamish and have seen a lot of terrible things out here.

We can’t let the Russians win

The doctor

“But I’ve always had a strange phobia about treating eyes – I would ask someone else to give people eye drops when I was working in the NHS.

“So it was my worst nightmare when I came across this poor man with half of his face gone and his eye ball hanging down

“It was obviously a shocking thing to see but I tried hard not to show it and comfort him and tell him he was going to be ok.

“I could only bandage him as best as I could then move on – but I still wonder how he’s getting on and what he might look like now.”

Brave Doc pledged to steel himself and stay on and fight for Ukraine for “as long as it takes” yesterday.

He said: “I’m not one of those people who can sit back home in the UK watching Ukraine war videos on their phones.

I don’t want to be the guy who sits on the sidelines and does nothing when terrible things are happening – you have to make things change.

“And we can’t let the Russians win.”

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A CAGE fighter says he is fed up of being teased by other hardmen — because he is called Taylor Swift.

The rising MMA star, 21, got so annoyed with having the same name as the world’s biggest pop star he considered getting it legally changed.

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But now he has vowed to Shake It Off and reckons the chart-topping billionaire, 35, could be the key to helping him turn professional.

The 6ft lightweight fighter and electrical apprentice has won three of his four bouts since starting the sport 14 months ago.

Taylor, from Cheltenham, Gloucs, told The Sun: “Even at weigh-ins, people start laughing.

“The worst part is when the announcer is reading out the names before a fight.

“People ask if I’m serious when I tell them my name. It gets a laugh when I’m going through airport security and on the door at clubs.”

The rock and rap loving lad has 1,500 Instagram fans, including Swifties who clicked him in error.

He added: “The name will help. A big part of the sport is about social media and sales. It’s hard to become a pro, so everything helps.”

But he is not a Swiftie himself, saying: “I don’t think I could even name three of her songs.”

HE has endured the world’s harshest environments, but as Bear Grylls launches his new adventure series, he insists the real survival expert is his co-star Holly Willoughby.

Celebrity Bear Hunt saw the 43-year-old mum jet out to film in Costa Rica — a country notorious for its hijackings, executions and drug gangs — just weeks after discovering that she had been the target of a kidnap, rape and murder plot here in the UK.

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While making the eight-parter, which starts on Netflix next week, ex-SAS trooper Bear, 50, says he discovered an inner steel that belies Holly’s girl-next-door TV image.

He said: “I’ve learned over this show that she is much smarter, ­savvier, tougher than she looks — and do not be fooled by that nice exterior. I’m not, and I tell her this often.

“Holly always says, ‘I would be ­terrible if I was a contestant. I’d die. I’d just sit in a bush and cry’. But I’m suspicious of that.

“Holly is also dreamy and so easy to work with. Non-ego. You know, I knew we were going to be in the jungle.

“I knew it was going to be a tough environment, and I needed somebody with real grace.”

Despite heading into such a hostile location to make Bear Hunt, Holly insists she just had to get on with her “business’ as a TV host.

That was despite her kidnap threat ordeal, which forced her to quit ITV’s This Morning after 14 years in October 2023.

‘Nothing can prepare you’

This weekend, she broke her long silence on the plot, which saw 37-year-old security guard Gavin Plumb sentenced to life with a 16-year ­minimum term last year.

Talking about the year from hell she endured after discovering his chilling plan, mother-of-three Holly said: “It’s been a tough one — there’s no way of sugar-coating it.

“Nothing can prepare you for ­something like that. When something like that happens, you have a ­decision to make.

“You either decide, ‘Right, I can take this on board and it can absolutely affect all aspects of my life’. Or I can make a choice to go, ‘Let’s focus on everything that’s positive and good — all those important things.’

“I’m healthy and I’m happy. I’ve got a wonderful husband and children and family, I’ve got great friends.

“You have to say, ‘I choose to move forward positively’ then rely on all those people — the police, the court, the judge, the jury, all those people — to do their role. And that’s what I had to do.”

Asked if she feared the experience might consume her, she said: “No. It wasn’t an option.

“For me, it’s just not an option. For all those reasons I’ve said. That all means too much to me, to let that be the other road I could have gone down.

“And so many people go through tough things. They just do.

“I mean, every single person I speak to — and it seems more and more are currently going through something . . .”

It was this empathy that Bear says also made Holly invaluable on ­Celebrity Bear Hunt, which sees a dozen famous faces “hunted” through a section of the deadly Costa Rican jungle dubbed the Bear Pit.

It is a tough challenge, and Holly’s role was not only to present the action, as she did on This Morning and is currently doing as co-host of ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

It was also to be there for the celebrities when they returned to camp, sometimes traumatised and injured by their ordeal in the wild.

Bear said: “I think Holly is a really good ear for them. She’s like, ‘Oh, come and have a cup of tea’, and I’m like, ‘No — they need to learn this knot.

“Sort it out. We’ll see them in the Bear Pit tomorrow. And then we can be nice’. Yeah. So there’s a good- cop, bad-cop thing going on.

“It’s a high-pressure environment for them back in there. They come out of the Pit exhausted.”

Bear added: “I’m nice 90 per cent of the time — in the Bear Pit ­occasionally I’m a little nastier.”

The star insists that his experience filming Bear Hunt with Holly only ­confirmed what he has learned through a career spent in the wildest parts of the globe. He says: “You can’t judge a book by its cover.”

It was hammered home to him by the celebrities on the show, who included Strictly’s Shirley Ballas, model Lottie Moss, singer Una Healy and TV chef Big Zuu.

Holly is also dreamy and so easy to work with. Non-ego. You know, I knew we were going to be in the jungle

Bear Grylls

Bear said: “Just because you think somebody’s a bit older or, you know, heavier . . . the wild’s not like that. It’s all about spirit, and unlikely heroes emerge. I mean Shirley, you know, she’s showing them all.

“Lottie, you think she’d be maybe ‘just a model’, but she is super- focused. I would call her ‘just a model’ at your peril!

“She is really delivering and has that warrior look, which is great.

“It’s the same with Una, actually. She’s like, ‘I’m done with being nice — it’s time in that Pit to get ­ruthless’. That’s her own words.

“And I go, ‘Yeah, you don’t wanna live all your life like that, but there’ll come a time when somebody treats you wrong. You need a little bit of that edge in life’.

“So I like the reflection to life through these sort of shows.”

If it sounds a little similar to ITV’s I’m A Celebrity, then be prepared for a ­surprise because the challenges go way beyond eating animal private parts or coming face to face with gunge and creepy crawlies.

Though the celebs live in a camp and have to navigate the personalities of their co-stars, in this show the participants are essentially prey.

‘We all have primal side’

Bear said: “We’ve never done a show hunting people down. It definitely has an edge to it.

“But also it’s a big, big production to do because it’s a huge area to try to run this thing in.

“You’ve got explosions, you’ve got nets, you’ve got celebrities, you’ve got jungle, you’ve got wildlife. There’s an awful lot of moving parts.

“But I love it. I love doing shows that build ­people up. I don’t want it to be like a ‘We’re out just to beat you’.

Tom Dymond/Netflix

“I wanted this to be an amazing experience for these guys.

“And from day one, the celebrities are totally into it. Like, ‘I want to learn this stuff — I want to become good at this’.

“And I think we all have a bit of a primal side where we want to be good at this stuff.

“I get a kick out of training them and putting them through the actual Bear Pit stuff that’s a little harder and more intense.

“But it’s pressure, testing this sort of stuff for real in that ­environment — it’s intimidating.

“You can talk about camouflage and tracking skills and survival skills and adventure skills and knots and shelters. But actually, putting it all together, where your survival depends on it, while under pressure . . . it’s pretty intense.

We’ve never done a show hunting people down. It definitely has an edge to it

Bear Grylls

“I’ve never done a show like this before, but I’m proud of it and it’s taken a really good team to help me put it together. It’s going to be tough and it’s going to be gritty.

“It’s going to have a gnarly feel to it and people are going to be intimidated and scared in the Pit.

“But ultimately I want them to come out, eyes shining bright.

“Those that still make it are super-proud of what they’ve done, and those that don’t give 100 per cent and don’t have it will naturally fall by the wayside.

“Cream tends to rise to the top. And I love seeing that at the end.”

• Celebrity Bear Hunt starts on Netflix on February 5.

TV host Steph McGovern

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I WANTED to do this because I have a four-year-old daughter who I want to grow into a strong woman, and I think this will show her that her mum is strong.

I like to push myself out of my comfort zone every so often.

Ted Lasso actor Kola Bokinni

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I’VE done Marine training. I flew in helicopters at night. I’ve done things that are quite challenging.

The unknown is exciting and nerve-racking. I want to dive into it and see where I get to just so, at the end, I can be proud of myself.

Strictly judge Shirley Ballas

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

MY son said to me, ‘Don’t think about being competitive.’ But that’s who I am.

I’ve climbed Kilimanjaro, I’ve jumped out of aeroplanes and, while I get a bit nervous inside, fear is not something I show.

Designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

EVERYONE assumes I’m going to be a terrible ponce, but I’m a lot harder than I look.

I assumed I’d get some kind of Roger Moore safari suit. I didn’t know I’d be in Velcro, for God’s sake!

Model Leomie Anderson

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

PEOPLE have this perception of what a model is capable of. They think we only care about how we look and we’re not smart.

I want to shatter those stereotypes. And also, to do it for my dad, who passed away two Christmases ago.

Ex-Rugby Player Danny Cipriani

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

PRIOR to this, my biggest challenge was probably my rugby. Going into a sport and facing the spotlight while continuing to learn about myself.

I feel that’s been my biggest journey and, at 36, I feel like I’m starting life again.

Model Lottie Moss

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

MY mum and dad think I’m crazy for doing this, and my friends are excited for me. They believe in me, which is nice.

My mum said, ‘I’ll see you at the end as you’re 100 per cent going to win’. But I don’t know what to expect.

Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I’M not a team leader – I don’t want conflict. I want everyone to be getting along and having a laugh and I’m going to be like a willing foot soldier.

I’m going to try to make sure everyone is happy and to be there for people.

Spice Girl Mel B

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I HAVE been with the Spice Girls for longer than I can remember! We all have roles.

Sometimes you lead, sometimes you’re in the middle. I’ve played all different roles over 30 years. I think I’ll bring that to the dynamic.

TV chef Big Zuu

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I HATE losing. I have to win! Otherwise, there’s no point. I feel like mentally I’m a very strong person.

I always say I’m a big character. My big energy normally leads to me being in charge and if I’m not, I’m going to have something to say!

Singer Una Healy

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I’M the kind of person that loves being given an itinerary. Even being in The Saturdays, I loved being told what we were doing the next day.

After being in a girl group, I am very much used to working as part of a team.

Wimbledon star Boris Becker

Ray Burmiston/Netflix

I’M one of the oldest participants, so I’ve had a very intense and public life. I’ve had unbelievable moments and really bad moments.

In hindsight, I’m glad I’ve had all these experiences. It makes me humble . . . and wiser.

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