After days of deliberation and faced with a forecast getting soggier by the day, Santa Anita officials have decided to postpone opening day of the 2025-26 race meeting from Friday until Sunday, Dec. 28. It's just the second time since 1976 that Santa Anita will not open on the day after Christmas. The other time was in 2019 for the same reason: wet weather. More than eight inches of rain are projected to fall between Tuesday night and Friday at Santa Anita.
The electricity substation fire on 20 March caused chaos at Heathrow airport, which had to shut, affecting more than 200,000 passengers around the world. Europe's busiest airport had more than 1,000 flights cancelled on the Friday after the fire at the substation in Hayes, west London.