Benedict Cumberbatch: ice driving in Finland (High Life Article)

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Benedict Cumberbatch wraps up in snowy Finland
Joe Windsor-Williams for High Life magazine
April 2014



Benedict Cumberbatch ditches his trademark detective's coat for thermals as he dares to cheat death driving on ice in central Finland. Gavin Green joins him

 The frozen lake we're standing on is speaking to us. It's a groaning, creaking voice, almost of pain, from way down deep in the icy abyss. 'Listen to that,' says Benedict Cumberbatch, dressed in a thick fur-collared jacket, black salopettes, chunky blue scarf, big snow boots, thick gloves and woolly hat. He looks more Scott of the Antarctic than Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. 'It sounds absolutely magical,' he says, concentrating hard on the sound of the ice moaning beneath us, around us. There is no other sound. It's too cold for birds or people or animals, too isolated for traffic.

'The ice is quite solid, I assume?' asks Benedict, articulating what we're all thinking. We're about to power around this frozen lake in a range of Jaguar sports cars and nobody wants their F-Type to turn submarine. 'Quite solid,' says our Finnish instructor, Tomi. He shows us a contraption that measures ice thickness. 'It's 35cm,' he says reassuringly. (That's just over a foot.) 'Although maybe less thick in places.' (An unhelpful postscript.)

We're in southern central Finland taking part in a Jaguar winter-driving course. Alongside me is probably the biggest British TV or film star since Anthony Hopkins made Hannibal a cannibal or Colin Firth performed his royal stammer. In excess of 16 million Brits watched Benedict reappear as Sherlock Holmes for his third series on BBC1, making it the most-watched — and certainly best-loved — British TV drama in over a decade.

He's tall (6ft), ramrod straight, just 37, slim (though trying to bulk up for his next part as a mercenary in Blood Mountain), has a blemish-free and stubble-free complexion, ice-blue eyes and swept-back auburn brown hair — which was dyed black for Sherlock, blond for Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate.

It was Sherlock, of course, that made him a star. Since that first series in 2010, it's been nonstop. 'I've played so many characters so fast,' he tells me. 'I had a bank holiday weekend to transfer from Sherlock Holmes into Christopher Tietjens [in Parade's End].'

On the frozen lake, driving a fast car, Benedict applies himself with the customary concentration of Sherlock solving a murder mystery. 'I do take challenges seriously,' he admits. Tomi and a former Finnish female rally champion, Minna ('She's the fastest driver here,' says Tomi) show him how to steer, how to brake and how to accelerate, to get the Jaguar to dance on ice.

His enthusiasm and determination are as clear as the bright Arctic light. At first, he spins (we all do). Later, after some practice, he's powering and pirouetting around the Finnish ice lake, more Senna than Sherlock.

Cumberbatch's intensity comes as no surprise. You have to be committed and laser-focused, I guess, if you're going to morph convincingly from Sherlock Holmes to Stephen Hawking, from Vincent van Gogh to Julian Assange, from Frankenstein and the monster to Smaug the Dragon. He's been an aristocratic WWI army officer (in Parade's End and War Horse — he says he has the face for it), a secret agent (in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), a slave owner (12 Years a Slave) and a Star Trek arch-villain. He's been Pitt the Younger and Young Rumpole. He's even been on Sesame Street — 'one of the best fun things I've ever done'.

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Emmy Awards British nominees: Benedict Cumberbatch

RADIO TIMES
James Gill
8:00 AM, 21 September 2013



BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Nominated for: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini Series or Movie

Role: Christopher Tietjens in Parade’s End

This is the second time the Sherlock actor has been nominated for an Emmy Award. The first was last year when he received a nomination for playing Sherlock Holmes, but lost out to Kevin Costner for his leading role as William ‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys.

This year he’s up for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini Series for playing Christopher Tietjens in Parade’s End. When he heard of his nomination, Cumberbatch paid tribute to writer Tom Stoppard who adapted the novel by Ford Madox Ford.

“I was so honoured to work on Parade’s End, to get the chance to get under the skin of such a complex, beautifully written character as Tietjens with a script written by the unsurpassable Sir Tom Stoppard,” he said.

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Dan Stevens: I love teasing Benedict Cumberbatch for calling Downton Abbey 'f*cking atrocious' Dan played Matthew Crawley in the show (NOW MAGAZINE)

Former Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens has confessed to ribbing Benedict Cumberbatch for criticising the popular show.

Dan starred as leading man Matthew Crawley in the hit ITV series until he left in a very dramatic fashion at the end of the Christmas special last year.

Awkwardly Dan has gone on to star alongside Benedict, 36, in upcoming film The Fifth Estate and he admits to taking the opportunity to tease his co-star over the remarks.

‘Poor Benedict. I tease him about it every time I see him,' Dan, 30, tells Event Magazine.

‘It's an easy way to make him feel bad.'

Benedict, who starred in rival period drama Parade's End, blasted Downton Abbey's portrayal of World War I.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Damian Lewis: British Stars In The Running For US TV Awards

Stars of Homeland and Parade's End head the British nominations for major television awards across the Pond.

By JENNY MANNING

Published: 23rd May 2013

  

DAMIAN Lewis and Benedict Cumberbatch are among a host of stars flying the flag for Britain at the 2013 American Critics’ Choice Television Awards.

The two actors have been honoured with nominations for their performances in Homeland and BBC mini-series Parade’s End respectively.

Lewis, whose Homeland co-star Claire Danes is also nominated, faces competition for best actor from fellow Brits Andrew Lincoln and Matthew Rhys, together with Kevin Spacey, Bryan Cranston and Timothy Olyphant.

Cumberbatch will battle it out against Behind The Candelabra stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, as well as Toby Jones, Al Pacino and Dominic West, in the best actor in a movie or mini-series field.

While Brit actresses Sienna Miller and Imelda Staunton have received nods for their portrayals of Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville in the BBC and HBO TV drama The Girl.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: The director of Star Trek Into Darkness says he was "blown away" by the British star in the hit BBC drama (RADIO TIMES)

Ellie Walker-Arnott
12:46 PM, 02 May 2013

Watching Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock was "the perfect medicine" and "working with Benedict exceeded all expectations", according to J.J. Abrams, the director behind Star Trek Into Darkness.

Speaking at the film's press conference, Abrams discussed the decision to cast the Sherlock star as the villain in his latest Star Trek instalment, saying: "I'm very grateful to the writers, notably Damon [Lindelof] who said 'you should check out Sherlock' which I had not done. And when we were casting this part it was the perfect medicine for what we were suffering from, which was not really being able to figure out who was someone who inspired us in the way that we needed."

"I saw Sherlock, and was of course blown away, and then called Benedict and we spoke. Benedict famously auditioned on an iPhone and when we watched that video it was 100% clear we'd found our man," added Abrams.

Of working with the much-loved British star on set, Abrams said: "Working with Benedict frankly exceeded all expectations and I think that everyone on the set stood a little bit taller when he was around."


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Benedict Cumberbatch - Benedict Cumberbatch bulked up for Star Trek 03 April 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)

The actor has revealed he gorged on fattening foods and endured an intense physical boot camp in order to bulk up for his role as mysterious villain John Harrison in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi sequel.

He told the new edition of SFX magazine: ''It was the first time I'd really intensely shape-shifted ... To go up from a 38 chest to a 42, eating 4,000 calories a day and training two hours a day, as well as the stunt rehearsals and fight choreography, was the most physical demand that's ever been made of me for the screen.''

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of why he's so shy about his illustrious looks By ALISON BOSHOFF PUBLISHED: 17:00 EST, UPDATED: 17:00 EST, 29 March 2013 (DAILY MAIL)

Leading man: Benedict Cumberbatch and rumoured past romance Lydia Hearst pictured together last year in Los Angeles

When actors work on set, their every need is catered for. And when Benedict Cumberbatch, the Sherlock actor who was once described as looking like a Meerkat in a Magimix, is delivered his coffee in a Styrofoam cup, he has his own sardonic way of making the experience more fun.

‘I try to get [the assistants] to write Sir Benedict on the cup,’ he says. ‘Occasionally, they oblige.’

As it turns out, he may not be a Sir but he is even posher than most of his fans previously thought.

It is well known that Cumberbatch, who this week started making the highly-anticipated third BBC series of Sherlock, grew up in Kensington and went to Harrow School (fees £32,160 a year).

However, despite giving dozens of interviews, he has never previously disclosed quite how illustrious his background is.

Why? Well, Cumberbatch is rather touchy about the subject of class. He told the Radio Times in August that he was fed up with ‘all the posh-bashing that goes on … It’s all so predictable. So domestic,  so dumb. It makes me think I want to go  to America.’

He continued, with some energy: ‘I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or  an oil rig.’

Fair enough. But while his family isn’t exactly rolling in it, the Cumberbatches have long been extremely eminent in society circles — so much so that The Times newspaper extensively covered the 1934 wedding of his grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, a submarine commander who was decorated in both World Wars.

Unusually, The Times illustrated the piece with a picture as well as a full description of the bride’s dress, flowers and headdress and a comprehensive list of the guests.


Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, by the way, was also described as a noted crack shot with a rifle, an exceptional rower and a ‘strong’ tennis player. His manly charm was noted by fellow officers.

Perhaps Benedict, who favours extreme sports such as paragliding and skydiving, gets some of his physical derring-do from that side of the family.

I can also reveal that his great-grandfather, Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, was the British Consul General in Smyrna, Turkey, and ruffled feathers with his protests against the slave trade in the area at the time.

Records show that in a single month in 1872, he made seven reports to the Foreign Office on the subject — and was instructed to turn a blind eye to the issue, and leave it to local authorities instead. He was also banned from sheltering slaves at the embassy.

Later, in recognition of his diplomatic service, he was created CMG — an honour sometimes known as ‘Call Me God’, a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael & St George.

Both men sound like the sort of relatives who would make one burst with pride. So why has Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch kept so quiet about them?

It seems Cumberbatch is rather sweetly angst-ridden about his high beginnings and the way he is publicly perceived. Nevertheless, he struggles to quash his patrician sense of proper standards.

Take the way he bemoaned modern culture in a recent interview: ‘It’s very hard getting into the car in the morning and listening to some radio station and thinking, “This is the level that people are engaging at on quite a few conversations.” ’

He went on: ‘I’m a firm believer in audiences being so much more intelligent than the s*** they get fed.’

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Colin Firth: Nicole Kidman Doesn't Remember Colin Firth in 'Before I Go To Sleep'n (FIRST SHOWING)

When Alex visited the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, he snapped a photo of a poster for an upcoming film called Before I Go to Sleep. The poster hyped Nicole Kidman in the lead role, and now Variety confirms her casting and mentions that The King's Speech star Colin Firth will play her husband in the thriller, with Mark Strong (Green Lantern, Sherlock Holmes) and Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy) rounding out the cast. 28 Weeks Later writer Rowan Joffe wrote the screenplay and will direct the suspenseful story of a woman with amnesia that sounds like it shares some DNA with Christopher Nolan's Memento. Read on!

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Benedict Cumberbatch: Parade's End director calls Benedict Cumberbatch "one of the finest actors of his generation" Susanna White admits that "without Cumberbatch, Parade’s End would be nothing like it is" (RADIO TIMES)

Tom Cole
11:24 AM, 27 February 2013

Bafta award-winning Parade’s End director Susanna White has called Benedict Cumberbatch “one of the finest actors of his generation” and admitted that “without him, Parade’s End would be nothing like it is.”

White is currently promoting the BBC period drama in the States ahead of its transmission on HBO, and opened up earlier this week about how lucky she was to secure the 36-year-old Sherlock star for the lead role of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens.

“There were less than a handful of actors who could have played that role," White told Collider. "Christopher is so buttoned up and so self-enclosed, and yet you have to really care about his situation. I knew Benedict could do that.”

The 52-year-old director also admitted that she was grateful to find an actor capable of tackling the role, who looked nothing like the “fat ox” described in Ford Maddox Ford’s 1920s novels, which formed the basis of the drama.

“I wanted women to really fall in love with him, so it was important to find somebody who would be both attractive and who also could play the emotional layers and have the intelligence,” she said.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Parade's End': A Plum Role for Benedict Cumberbatch

By Ross Langager 26 February 2013
Quavers and Hesitations

A moment in the premiere hour of Parade’s End explains the title in one deft stroke. In the midst of a luncheon with a friend and colleague, the brilliant but conventional government statistician Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) receives a letter from his free-spirited wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall). In blunt terms, she asks his leave to come home to Britain after deserting him for a fling with another man on the Continent. As Tietjens details a grimly rational plan for reestablishing a semblance of domestic stability upon her return, his more impulsive Scottish colleague McMaster (Stephen Graham) bluntly wonders why Tietjens does not simply divorce his wife for her serial infidelity. “For a gentleman,” replies Tietjens haltingly, “there is such a thing as… call it, ‘parade’.”

The BBC/HBO miniseries, adapted from Ford Madox Ford’s epochal tetralogy of 1920s novels, goes on to depict a long “parade” of failing conventional propriety. Tom Stoppard’s teleplay amplifies the frosted, caustic wit of the British upper class while maintaining the original’s core themes. The trajectory veers towards the titular expression of finality, as the inherited privilege of the Gilded Age and vestigial Victorian behavioral codes are eclipsed by the slaughter of the First World War and the profound social changes it engendered. Tietjens embodies initially the imperial establishment’s standard of gentlemanly self-possession, gradually becoming a harbinger of its agonizing downfall.

What a plum role for Cumberbatch this Tietjens is. Launched to prominence as a beloved 21st-century Sherlock Holmes, the fantastically named English actor here slips into the skin of another furiously logical genius who struggles to connect emotionally with those closest to him. Though the role is not wholly outside of his comfort zone, Cumberbatch rarely makes the obvious choice with the character, especially when Tietjens sees action at the Front and returns with acute shell shock (very literally expressed, in one haunted monologue about the varieties of explosives used in artillery bombardment). Quavers and hesitations in his Received Pronunciation utterances bespeak a considered intellect before the trenches, afterwards suggest mental trauma, and Cumberbatch gestures to the shift without ever telegraphing it.


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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: Not the Same Old Cup of British Tea By ALESSANDRA STANLEY (NEW YORK TIMES)

Saying that a television series depicts the English aristocracy on the brink of World War I and beyond is almost a disservice — the description sounds like yet another big Masterpiece Theater bore, or worse, an amusing one like “Downton Abbey.” “Parade’s End,” a co-production of the BBC and HBO that begins on Tuesday on HBO, looks like a lush elegy to the Edwardian age, but it’s not nearly as swoony and nostalgic as most others of the genre. Tom Stoppard adapted Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy into a five-part series, streamlining and speeding up the story without dumbing it down.


Like Ford’s modernist opus, and its brainy, punctilious hero, Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch), the series is not easy to follow or instantly love, but it is impossible to dismiss. That’s partly thanks to artful storytelling and gifted acting, especially by Rebecca Hall, who is a bewitching hoot in the role of Christopher’s bored, unfaithful wife, Sylvia.

It’s a series that inevitably draws comparisons with “Downton Abbey,” since they share the same upper-class trappings and totems. Tietjens, a brilliant statistician, is an old-fashioned English gentleman, good with horses, furniture and propriety. He is chivalrously loyal to Sylvia, a spoiled beauty who scorns her husband’s stuffy rectitude, even as she is piqued by it. She dismisses him as a “great lump,” yet can’t stop poking him.


“Parade’s End” tells the story of a bad marriage, set in a much broader context of a rotting civilization.

And that’s the real difference between it and “Downton Abbey.” That show is a gauzy anachronism in period costumes; the first novel of “Parade’s End” was published in 1924, and the series is enmeshed in the great cataclysm of the time, underscoring the cruelty of the age as much as its charm.


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Benedict Cumberbatch : Parade's End, the New Downton Abbey? (WALL STREET JOURNAL VIDEO)

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Move over, Downton Abbey: Parade’s End is moving in Stellar writing and cast make British period piece a winner By Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette February 20, 2013 (CALGARY HERALD)

MONTREAL - Great news for those going through the initial stages of Downton Abbey withdrawal: another sterling British period piece is set to make its North American debut.

The five-part miniseries Parade’s End begins Tuesday on HBO Canada. But unlike Downton Abbey, viewers won’t have to wait endless weeks for it to wrap. This Parade comes to an end on Feb. 28; the entire series airs over three nights.

Saving the best for last: Not to detract from Downton Abbey, but Parade’s End packs even more of a punch. Yet it, too, has epic sweep, replete with lavish costumes, tony castles and manicured gardens.

Not that time-honoured servitude doesn’t come into the fray, but Parade’s End is much more upstairs than downstairs-oriented. There is also more passion and more mirth at play here than in Downton Abbey. The tension builds dramatically in this bittersweet tale of love and valour. And the “whiff of sex permeates like a vapour,” as one character so accurately assesses.

Not to detract from the work of Maggie Smith et al at the Abbey, but Parade’s End stars Benedict Cumberbatch (yes, the same guy somewhat slumming in the Sherlock TV series), Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett, Stephen Graham, Janet McTeer, Miranda Richardson and many more give the equivalent of a master class in acting. Even the late Sir Larry Olivier would be dazzled.

And not to detract from Downton Abbey creator/writer Julian Fellowes, but it’s hard to top scripts penned by playwright Tom Stoppard, who has adapted this series from the acclaimed four novels of Ford Madox Ford. The dialogue, be it tongue-in-cheek droll or deliciously treacherous, is brilliant. To wit: “He’s not dead. He’s in Glasgow.” Or, “He’s a great lump of wood … (I want) to kill him to see if he has any blood in him.”



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Parade's End Promos Showcase Benedict Cumberbatch And Tom Stoppard Author: Jesse Carp (CINEMA BLEND)

In about a week and a half's time, HBO will start airing Parade's End, a five part mini-series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a British aristocrat caught in a love triangle and World War I. Surely, nothing that Sherlock can't handle. Based on a four part book series of the same name by Ford Madox Ford, the mini-series was adapted for the premium cable network, and the BBC, by renowned British playwright Tom Stoppard.

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Benedict Cumberbatch leads TV award nominees (BBC NEWS)

Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall are among the nominees for the 39th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

The pair are up for best actor and actress for their roles in BBC Two drama Parade's End, which leads the field with five nominations.

Parade's End also features in the best drama series category, where it will compete with Last Tango in Halifax, Line of Duty and Sherlock.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony in London next month.

Cumberbatch, whose nomination also recognises his performance in Sherlock, faces competition his from Parade's End co-star Roger Allam; Ben Whishaw for his roles in Richard II and The Hour; and Peter Capaldi, for The Thick Of It and The Hour.

Hall is up against Sienna Miller, for The Girl; Anna Chancellor, who starred in Pramface and The Hour; Olivia Colman, for Accused and Twenty Twelve; and Maxine Peake, from Silk and Room At The Top).

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Benedict Cumberbatch dances Gangnam Style - video (RADIO TIMES)

See the overjoyed Sherlock star throwing shapes to K-pop star Psy's mega hit single 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gqAZwcrOf5g#!

Tom Cole
2:49 PM, 22 January 2013

Yes, thanks to the ceaseless creativity of YouTube’s users, you can now kick back and marvel at a particularly ecstatic-looking Cumberbatch doing Korean star Psy’s much-imitated trademark dance.

But while the original video has been watched more than 1.2 billion times, the aptly-titled Cumberbatch Style had only notched up 13 views at the time of writing. You’re in on the ground floor for this one, kids!

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Benedict Cumberbatch: HBO Previews Upcoming ‘Parade’s End’ Miniseries Starring Benedict Cumberbatch

HBO has some good news for Anglophiles who are already fretting over the looming finale of Downton Abbey‘s third season in February. They’ll soon be serving up a British period drama of their own in the form of Parade’s End, a five-part miniseries set against the backdrop of World War I, starring Sherlock‘s Benedict Cumberbatch.

The first two parts of Parade’s End premiere Tuesday, February 26th at 9/8c on HBO.



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‘Oh Come On!’ Sherlock Actress Lara Pulver Denies Dating Benedict CumberbatchShe slams the Daily Mail… (E.)

Lara Pulver might have got ‘naked’ on the set of Sherlock when playing opposite Benedict Cumberbatch on the hit show, but business is business and the actress denies that they are dating in real life, slamming a report that suggests that the two were “completely engrossed” with each other.

The actress has tweeted about the Daily Mail report, criticising the paper’s facts.

"Oh come on, it's the Mail! I've never read a more factually incorrect article," she wrote, while tagging a Sherlock fan, who had questioned whether the story was true.

Benedict and Lara attended the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards last week along with other members from the Sherlock cast and crew, but according to a source they seemed more than friends.

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Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch Cycles For Charity (LOOK TO THE STARS)

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch was among 3,000 cyclists saddling up for The Prince's Trust Palace to Palace bike ride supported by Saudi Aramco on Sunday 14th October.

Benedict Cumberbatch at the Prince's Trust Palace to Palace Bike Ride

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The 45-mile Palace to Palace ride from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle raises vital funds for the work of The Prince’s Trust. Every year, the sell-out event sees participants collectively cycle 135,000 miles between the Royal Palaces.

Prince’s Trust ambassador Benedict, who stars in the hit BBC drama Sherlock, has raised more than £20,000 for The Trust for this year’s event.

He said: "I don’t get the opportunity to cycle much so it was fantastic to take part on such a beautiful route through London. It wasn’t easy cycling 45 miles but it’s worth it for such an important cause and everyone has had a great time.

“The Prince’s Trust is a charity which I am passionate about helping. Young people are our future, and with so many struggling to find work in the UK, I feel it’s vital we do everything we can to make sure all young people have the opportunities to succeed.”

TV presenter Anna Williamson, who took part with her team Anna’s Angels, said: “It was hard work but lots of fun riding through the city. The best thing about Palace to Palace is that it’s not a competition so everyone was really relaxed and the atmosphere was absolutely brilliant.”


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