Kings coach Grant Barker celebrates winning Development Coach of the year at the national wheelchair basketball awards Kings coach, Grant Barker celebrated winning Development Coach of the year at the 2018 Richard Langhorn Trust Wheelchair Basketball Awards on Saturday. Grant was shortlisted for the award after an excellent year as a coach including taking Kings […]
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Award Winners Announced at the Newbury Ladies Presentation Evening
Newbury Ladies Football Club held their end of season awards ceremony last Saturday at the Donnington Valley Hotel & Golf Club. It was attended by Steve Masters, who was representing Eight Bells for Mental Health Newbury and he collected a cheque on the evening on the charity’s behalf for £300. This amount was donated by […]
Newbury Racecourse announces new £100,000 handicap cup race sponsored by JLT
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Newbury Racecourse is delighted to announce the introduction of an exciting new £100,000 stayers’ handicap sponsored by JLT and named the JLT Cup. The extended two-mile contest (2m 110y) for three-year-olds and upwards takes place on Saturday, July 21, and forms part of Weatherbys Super Sprint Day, which will now have prize money of over […]
Greenham Multi Use Games Area Gets a Facelift
The Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) at The Willows School in Greenham has had a £25,818 makeover. A great community facility, the MUGA is already open for business and is being enjoyed by many community groups including the Willows Wanderers Run Together Group (pictured). The MUGA used to be maintained by a local community group, […]
Kings Division 3 Team Finished Up as Runner Up at National Championships
The recently crowned Champions of British Wheelchair Basketball’s Division Three South West, The Thames Valley Kings were in action this Weekend at the National Championship Finals to fight to become overall divisional winners. The Thames Valley Kings were in Semi-Final Action on Saturday afternoon against Sheffield Steelers 4 for a place in Sunday’s final against the […]
Hundreds of Runners Make it Another Great Community Day in Newbury
The Roc Newbury 10km race, supported by The Good Exchange, yielded a double win for Newbury Athletic Club, as its runners claimed a clean sweep of victories in both the men’s and women’s races and in the two team categories, the first time this has happened. There were also wins for some of their juniors […]
Team GB Olympian opens Newbury College Gym
Students and staff at Newbury College welcomed former Team GB Sprinter, Mark Richardson, to officially open its new gym and wellbeing facility on Thursday 17 May. Councillor David Fenn, Mayor of Newbury, joined the Berkshire based athlete to formally cut the ribbon on the new facility, which is supported by Sport England. Newbury College Sport […]
Thames Valley Kings Win in Overtime to Hopefully Seal Divisional Title
Thames Valley Kings and Worcester Wolves put on a masterpiece that needed overtime to find a winner in the Kings Division Three final game of the 2017/18 Season made even more intense with promotion to Division Two on the line for Kings. In the first quarter, It was Wolves who took an early 7-0 lead […]
Newbury Ladies Development Team vs Barton Rovers Royals – Match Report, 6th May
Newbury Ladies Development Team vs Barton Rovers Royals Thames Valley Counties League Division Two South Sunday 6th May 2018 RESULT: 2 – 1 Last Sunday, the Newbury Ladies Development Team played their last fixture of their Division Two South campaign in the Thames Valley Counties Women’s League for Season 2017/18. Although Newbury were the home […]
Thames Valley Kings Reign Supreme
Coming along closely behind Jacqueline Scoins Cass MBE’s invite to the royal wedding, the Kings took part in a battle royale themselves today (6th May) at Kennet Leisure centre where they faced the might of The Plymouth Raiders. The Kings looked to be down during the first half with the scoreline 2 – 8 after […]