CRICKET: Forty years on from when the summer of 1981 became Ian Botham’s finest hour

CRICKET: Forty years on from when the summer of 1981 became Ian Botham’s finest hour

Posted: 10th June 2021
  IT does not seem possible that it is now 40 years since Ian Terence Botham became talk of the cricket world during a summer which produced a massive turnaround in personal sporting fortunes. He went from being zero to hero during a dramatic summer of Ashes cricket twists and turns which saw England claim a famous 3-1 victory over the Australians – thanks mainly to…

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WHAT A TEAM THAT WAS: Send us your old sporting team line-up photos

WHAT A TEAM THAT WAS: Send us your old sporting team line-up photos

Posted: 10th May 2021
  YEOVIL Press reader Julian Cox sent us this photo of a Westlands Rugby Club team photo from the 1960s. Pictured (back row from left) are Derek “Chummy” Sowden, Derek Farndon, Stan Crossland, Ken Parker, Ken Snook, Rob Vincent, Alan Graham and Gary Goodchild and (front row from left) Norman Marks, Bill McNaught, Des Daly, Dennis Ward, Mike Smith (captain), Bob Clarke…

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YEOVIL FLASHBACK: The day the Picketty Witch pub team beat TV Entertainers XI

YEOVIL FLASHBACK: The day the Picketty Witch pub team beat TV Entertainers XI

Posted: 10th May 2021
  THE old Picketty Sports FC in Yeovil squad is pictured here for the programme for a special match held in October 1989 against the TV Entertainers XI. The match was held at the Yeovil Athletics Stadium at the Yeovil Recreation Centre to raise money for the Joanne France Memorial Fund and the BBC TV Children in Need Appeal. Photos of the programme were sent to the…

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EQUESTRIAN: Harriet speeds to second success

EQUESTRIAN: Harriet speeds to second success

Posted: 23rd June 2019
SOUTH Somerset rider Harriet Nuttall and her horse Silver Lift took top honours at this weekend’s Hickstead Derby Meeting. Harriet saw off reigning champion Matthew Sampson to win the Science Supplements Speed Derby on Saturday, June 22, 2019. Matt had been aiming for a third consecutive win with Topflight True Carlo, while Harriet was hoping to add a second win with…

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RUNNING: Photos galore of the runners in Yeovil Half Marathon

RUNNING: Photos galore of the runners in Yeovil Half Marathon

Posted: 25th March 2018
AROUND 2,000 runners took to the streets - or as we would call the “stress” - of Yeovil and surrounding area in the town’s annual Half Marathon on Sunday (March 25, 2018). The athletes, many of whom were running for various charities, took the challenge by the horns and put their best foot forward in what is becoming one of the highlight events of the year in the Yeovil…

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HORSE RACING: Bryony Frost looks for gold medal success at Cheltenham – the Olympics of racing

HORSE RACING: Bryony Frost looks for gold medal success at Cheltenham – the Olympics of racing

Posted: 26th February 2018
JOCKEY Bryony Frost is hoping that fairy tales come true when she climbs on board Black Corton at next month’s Cheltenham Festival. Frost has described the festival as the “Olympics of the horse racing world” and she will be looking to gain a second successive ‘gold medal’ following on from her brilliant first place ride last year on Pacha Du Polder. She will be going…

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HORSE RACING: Pressure to succeed at Cheltenham Festival is huge says trainer Paul Nicholls

HORSE RACING: Pressure to succeed at Cheltenham Festival is huge says trainer Paul Nicholls

Posted: 26th February 2018
  LEGENDARY horse racing trainer Paul Nicholls believes “rightly or wrongly” that success is gauged on how many winners you get each year at the Cheltenham Festival. Nicholls, who currently tops the jump trainer’s championship table this season from rivals Nicky Henderson and Nigel Twiston-Davies, has had his fair share of Cheltenham triumphs down the years. But the…

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GOLF: Seniors at Cricket St Thomas battle against bad weather

GOLF: Seniors at Cricket St Thomas battle against the elements

Posted: 13th August 2017
  THIRTY-SEVEN senior golfers from Cricket St Thomas Golf Club braved the elements last Monday (August 7, 2017) to enter the August qualifying medal competition. Steady rain made the conditions difficult, and praise must go to the three players who returned below par scores. In Division One, Martin Leigh just held off a challenge from Frank Martin to take the honours by…

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GYMNASTICS: Amazing gymnasts are putting Yeovil on the map

GYMNASTICS: Amazing gymnasts are putting Yeovil on the map

Posted: 31st July 2017
FOURTEEN talented gymnasts from the award-winning Orchard Gymnastics group in Yeovil competed at the recent TeamGym British Championships at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. The prestigious event is part of the British gymnastics championship series which sees the best gymnasts compete across four different disciplines for titles at the highest UK level. Orchard’s national…

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FOOTBALL: Milborne Port FC remembers 125 years of history with Saints legend Le Tissier

FOOTBALL: Milborne Port FC remembers 125 years of history with Saints legend Le Tissier

Posted: 8th June 2017
FORMER Southampton and England star Matt Le Tissier was the special guest of honour as a South Somerset football club celebrated its 125th anniversary. Le Tissier, who made 540 appearances for the Saints and scored 209 goals in a senior career from 1985 to 2002, is now a familiar face on the panel of the Soccer Saturday programme on Sky Sports. But he has also become an…

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