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Surrey’s members ready to go nuts for Ford-inspired KP
JASON COURT says that there’s more optimism in the members’ pavilion at The Oval ahead of the County Championship, which begins on Sunday On Sunday I will be joining the masses of cabbies, retirees, students, the unemployed and other 40- … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Graeme Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Alec Stewart, cricket, Graeme Smith, Graham Ford, Kevin Pietersen, Sport, Surrey, Surrey CCC
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Croydon RFC charity memorial day, May 17
Posted in Activities, Charity, Croydon RFC, Rugby Union, Sport
Tagged charity, Croydon, Croydon RFC, rugby, Sport
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Rooney named as shooting witness in Pistorius murder trial
Croydon’s Olympic sprinter Martyn Rooney was with Oscar Pistorius and two other dinner guests in a restaurant when the “Blade Runner” is alleged to have fired a pistol, a court in Pretoria heard this week during the South African Paralympian’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Crime, Croydon Harriers, Martyn Rooney, Sport
Tagged athletics, Blade Runner, Croydon Harriers, Martyn Rooney, Oscar Pistorius, Sport
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Coulsdon bowlers tee themselves up to putt on golf
The Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green are getting ready to tee off for a new season by offering re-opened pitch and putt and putting greens in the park from April 19. Yesterday, volunteers from the Friends were hard at … Continue reading
Lloyd Park to host the 2014 British Open – at disc golf
A national sports championship is coming to Croydon. Disc golf’s British Open is to be staged at Lloyd Park over the first weekend of May. Yes, disc golf. A form of target Frisbee-ing, played around a 18-“hole” course using specially … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon Disc Golf Club, Sport
Tagged 18 holes, British Open, CDGC, Croydon, Croydon Disc Golf Club, Disc golf, Lloyd Park, Nate Doss, Sport
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Trinity face trip to the champions to stay in national cup
RUGBY ROUND-UP: For the second successive year, Whitgift have been knocked out of the national schools’ rugby cup by Hampton School, losing 11-6 in a hard-fought contest in South Croydon yesterday afternoon. Probably most galling of all, Whitgift had led … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon RFC, Old Mid-Whitgiftians/Trinity RFC, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, Rugby Union, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Uncategorized, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Croydon, NatWest Cup, Old Mid-Whitgiftians, Old Whitgifitians, Purley-John Fisher, rugby, rugby union, schools, South Croydon, Sport, Streatham-Croydon, Surrey, Trinity School, Warlingham, Whitgift School
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Ahola’s power helps see Warlingham through to the Finnish
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Warlingham emerged from the mid-season break to claim a much-needed victory in London 2SE, 19-10 at bottom club Heathfield and Waldron. Their second successive win in the league moved Warlingham to eighth in the 12-team division, and pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon RFC, Rugby Union, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Croydon, Croydon RFC, rugby, rugby union, Sport, Streatham and Croydon RFC, Warlingham
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Are you Croydon’s Rory McIlroy? Find out at Addington Court
Addington Court is offering a round of golf on its Falconwood course for less than a tenner, in a price-cutting innovation that could help to discover Croydon’s own Rory McIlroy or Tiger Woods, or Laura Davies. The £9.99 offer applies … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Golf, New Addington South, Sport
Tagged England, Falconwood, Golf, Golf course, New Addington, Rory McIlroy, Sport, Tiger Woods
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Croydon’s Olympic volunteers offered free photo-shoot
Were you an Olympic Games volunteer? A local business is offering a free photo-shoot of volunteers in their Olympic uniform together with their ID as a special thank-you for all their efforts during the London 2012 Games. The picture will … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Shirley North, Sport
Tagged 2012 Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics, Events, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, Sport, Summer Games
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Beddington boxer Edwards’ Olympic dream is at an end
Disappointment, with 100 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics, for one local hopeful, Beddington boxer Charlie Edwards. The 19-year-old, a European bronze medal-winner at light-flyweight last year, needed to reach the semi-finals of this week’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Boxing, Sport
Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, Boxing, London, London 2012, Olympics, Sport, Twitter
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Beddington boxer gets one bout closer to Olympic dream
If you booked your tickets for the London Olympics, did you make sure that you included seats for the light-flyweight boxing bouts? Teenager Charlie Edwards moved a step closer to qualifying for a place in the London Games by winning … Continue reading
Veteran of 100 marathons runs his own race in Richmond Park
Congratulations to Croydon runner Gareth Davies, who today, together with a couple of regular training partners, managed to organise and stage the first Richmond Park Marathon. The 26-mile 385-yard race was a bit of a contrast from the 40,000-runner London … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Outside Croydon, Sport
Tagged Croydon, London, London Marathon, Marathon, Road running, Running, Sport, Trail running
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