RBS 6 nations 2010
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Athletes excel as Cumbria Cross-County Championships come to Barrow
TALENTED young runners from across the county descended on a chilly Barrow for the 2010 Cumbria Schools Cross Country Championships.
Top Olympic coach trains South Cumbrian swimmers
TOP Olympic swimming coach Bill Furniss passed on his vast knowledge to South Cumbria’s top young stars at the Park Leisure Centre.
Amateur football
Monthly award curse hits Holker
ONCE again Rakesmoor was in perfect condition as Holker looked to extend their unbeaten four-match run which had gained them both the manager and player-of-the-month awards for February.
Tributes paid to RU great Ron - one of the greatest men never to play for England
RON Slater, one of the greatest rugby union fly-halfs never to play for England, has died, aged 80.
Amateur RL news
Late show from Pilkington Recs against Barrow Island
ISLAND ran the North West Counties Premier Division title contenders closer than the scoreline suggests, with two late tries sealing victory for the St Helens side at Rating Lane.
HORSE racing has been one of the most prominent sporting victims of the recent freeze, with even all-weather tracks falling foul of the snow and ice. PAUL TURNER talks to trainer Jimmy Moffatt in frozen Cartmel and discovers he can only just remember the last time he actually had a runner
ONE of Barrow’s finest RL players of the 1950s, Tommy Keen, has died.
THE local sporting fraternity is saddened by the death of former Barrow RL star Brian Sharp, who passed away suddenly on New Year’s Day, aged 74.
SPEEDWAY ace Adam Roynon will make his Elite League bow this season after signing a deal with Peterborough Panthers.
THE trials and tribulations of Celtic Crusaders – or just plain Crusaders as they are now – have had the rugby league world taking for the majority of the close season.
I BETTER watch what I say this week after the unexpected backlash from the Arsenal faithful I received last week.
TEENAGE race ace Aaron McClure is looking forward to 2010 as he streaks ahead in motorsport.
MAX O’Hara’s talent on the orienteering course is plain for all to see – and the teenager is hoping Simon Cowell can see it on the stage as well.
FAVOURITE Paul Bird led from start to finish to win an action-packed Coppermines Grizedale Stages Rally.
WHEN injury deprived Sue Thomas the chance of a place at the 2004 Games in Athens she thought her Olympic dream was over.
THE club that has seen by far the biggest change over the close-season is without a doubt Leigh Centurions.
FOR the first time in many a season, Whitehaven were knocked from their perch as the best team in Cumbria last year.
EVER since he could walk, Liam Brockbank has put a ball in front of his feet and kicked it along.
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