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Fiftenn year-olds Luke Dillon were selected amongst a strong contingent of surfers to represent the country at the upcoming Quiksilver World Junior Surfing Games.
The coveted games are to be held in New Zealand over eight days from the 20 January.
The boys will compete in the under-sixteens division alongside Bude's Jobe Harris and Bournemouth's Miles Lee Hargreaves.
Luke's father Tony, an experienced surfer himself is immensely proud of what both boys have achieved.
"They have worked and trained hard throughout 2009, and have beaten off competition from England, Wales, Scotland and the Channel Islands to achieve one of the four team places.
"Good luck to both boys. Newquay and Cornwall should be very proud!"
The boys, both students at Newquay Tretherras School left Newquay this week, and to keep up with their studies have been given laptops to do their schoolwork.
The contest, being held at Piha on New Zealand's West Coast consists of 250 surfers from 30 countries.
All taking part will be battling it out to be crowned World Champion.
However, with the surf forecast bewteen six and ten foot, the competition will be testing for all competitors.
You can keep up to date with the boys' progress online with streaming video, results and coverage at www.isaworldjuniors.com.
St Blazey extend their losing streak to four on the trot against visitors Tavistock
Duchy League Division 2 match played at St Breward on Saturday 24th October. St Breward put an end to St Newlyn East's unbeaten run as the visitors lose 3:1.
They lost to a better side in a sometimes bad-tempered match, punctuated by the use of the referee’s yellow card. Three players from each side spent time in the sin-bin, two of them in the first half and four in the second. However the display from the home pack, particularly in the set piece, must have gone a long way to give them encouragement. Strangely enough, despite their mid-table position, Hornets are still the league’s joint top points scorers with second placed Camborne.
Within three minutes, Hornets had forced a penalty 30 metres out in centre field that fly half, Chevy Reed put over to make it 3-7. However on 11 minutes Camels’ dynamic running set up another opportunity for Briskham to hit the line and he fed Tom O’Donnell, who went over to extend the lead. Taylor again converted. Camels’ skipper and No. 8, Ian Boyling was a real handful for the home defence and Camels spent the rest the first quarter in home territory. When Hornets got into the Camels half, on 20 minutes, the visiting backs were caught offside and Reed kicked his second penalty. Reed slotted another penalty after 36 minutes to bring the home side within one score, but uncharacteristically weak home defence let flanker Sam Stone run through for Camels’ third try in injury time at the break. Taylor did the honours with the conversion to make it 9-21.
Scorers:
Wadebridge Camels Tries Dan Briskham, Ben May, Tom O’Donnell, Sam Stone
Penalty Josh Taylor
Report by Richard Trewella
Milly & Bob Brewer joined present members for the get together, Bob was one of the actors at Lane Theatre during the 1960's, also in attendance was John Jay (President) and Lesley Clare (Vice President).
Wadebridge Royal Cornwall Showground hosted the 13th Wheels Classic Vehicle Rally on Sunday 19th July 2009. The show, organised by Wadebridge Rotary Club, incorporated Think You Can Drive, a road safety awareness exhibition by Truro Rotary Club. A large number of classic and vintage cars, motor bikes and commercial motors attended the show, with a visit from both the Police and Air Ambulance helicopters. Nominated charities were Cornwall Hospice Care, Cornwall Air Ambulance and FLEET. Wheels chairman is Clive Robinson, www.rotaryclubwadebridge.org.
Photos by Peter Glaser Photography01208 851744 / 07771 736445peter@pgphotography.biz / www.pgphotography.biz
The Annual Gardner Powell Gig Race has been run since the mid-fifties. The race is named after Stanley Gardner Powell, a Jeweller Manufacturer from Birmingham who relocated to Newquay and has a great interest and support for the Rowing Club.
Crews in Newquay Gigs Active, Newquay, Dove, Good Intent and Fly took across the still Newquay Bay, followed by the obligatory array of fishing and pleasure boats with spectators.
The race started off evenly matched, until Active and the Fly pulled away from the pack to fight for first and second place. At the halfway buoy there was even a little commotion as the gigs oars touched as Active tried to take the inside line.
By final straight, the Fly team had managed to forge a convincing lead over her competitors and rolled over the finish line approximately 3 lengths ahead of Active. They were then followed by Newquay, Dove and then Good Intent.
The winning crew consisted of Richard Boyden, David Ball, Rob Wigley, Chris Tilyard, Tommy Gee, Chris Martin and Cox Paul Taylor. The trophy and medals were presented by former leading rower, and present Newquay Pilot Gigs Trustee Chas Mills.
Wadebridge hosted the annual Royal Cornwall Show on Thursday 4th, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th June 2009. This is a collection of photos from the county's biggest annual event, attended by over 125,000 visitors - taken over the 2nd and 3rd days of the show, the gallery includes the Royal visit by Princess Alexandra.
Bodmin Lions held their annual Ten Tors charity walk across Bodmin Moor on Sunday 10th May 2009.Starting and finishing at St Breward Football Club, there were 290 entrants pledging over £15,000 on the day with eventual expectations to match last year's total of £25,000 raised for numerous charities.First entrant to complete the course was Martin Jago of St Breward in 2hrs 18mins.
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