Home
News
Comment
King St Window
Letters to the Editor
Down the Years
Herald Heirlooms
Sport
Obituaries
ARCHIVE SEARCH
Archive by month
SPORT
Penrith rugby players rewarded
Monday, 12 May 2008

ON Friday Penrith Rugby Club held their presentation evening giving players, coaches and officials the opportunity to look back on the season just completed.

Read more...
 
Six of the best for Blues
Wednesday, 23 April 2008

PENRITH Town won the Northern League Division II championship after thrashing North Shields 6-1.

Read more...
 
Day of joy — and despair
Monday, 21 April 2008

THERE was joy and disappointment in equal amounts on a day of contrasting fortunes for two of Penrith's main sports teams on Saturday.

Read more...
 
Penrith beaten in final
Thursday, 17 April 2008

PENRITH Town were beaten 2-0 by Carlisle United in the Cumberland Cup final, played at Brunton Park on Wednesday.

Read more...
 
Curtain comes down with a flourish on jockey’s 19 years at the top
Monday, 14 April 2008
Tony Dobbin with Greystoke stables staff and the stable dogs.
Tony Dobbin with Greystoke stables staff and the stable dogs.

THURSDAY’S race meeting at Carlisle brought the curtain down on the 19-year career of one of the country’s leading jump jockeys, Tony Dobbin.

Read more...
 
Apprentice to learn from the masters
Monday, 14 April 2008

THERE is no substitute for experience — and Tony Dobbin plans to get as much training know-how under his belt this summer as he can before he and partner Rose Davidson set up in their own yard in Northumberland.

Read more...
 
Record five winners over Grand National fences
Monday, 14 April 2008

ALTHOUGH Tony Dobbin’s home track of Carlisle is his favourite, he names Ayr and Aintree as his other top racecourses, and in fact announced his impending retirement at Aintree — the scene of his 1997 Grand National triumph.

Read more...
 
Penrith school in last eight of Daily Mail Vase
Friday, 01 February 2008
 Jon Fell (right) in action for QEGS against Hymers College.
Jon Fell (right) in action for QEGS against Hymers College.

PENRITH Queen Elizabeth Grammar School first XV have reached the last eight of the national Daily Mail Vase under-18 competition following a hard-fought and well deserved victory away to Hymers College, Hull.

Read more...