Torpids 2014

• No racing due to a high stream
• Racing scheduled for 5–8 March

• In other news ... [2014]

  5 March

  Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela, severs diplomatic and political ties with Panama, accusing Panama of being involved in a conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.

  5 March

  Birmingham City Council is to sell the NEC Group because the authority is facing legal claims over equal pay totalling more than £1bn.

  6 March

  Prince Harry launches the Invictus Games, a Paralympic-style sporting championship for wounded soldiers.

  6 March

  Home Secretary Theresa May announces a public inquiry into undercover policing after revelations that officers spied on members of Stephen Lawrence's family.

  8 March

  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.

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