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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.