• Walker in the honours after tactics pay off

  By Cranbrook People at 08:00 on 13/05/11

  

  KEITH WALKER produced two cracking rides to get among the honours in two events over the weekend. He contested a road race on the Benenden-Cranbrook circuit involving 10 laps of an undulating 6.5 mile course and was content, initially, to let others do the work. Plenty of them tried to break clear; none was successful and Walker stuck to his plan until the fifth lap when he decided it was time to go away with a group of three. He...

• Table tennis ace enjoys superb weekend

  By Cranbrook People at 08:00 on 13/05/11

  

  Table tennis LEWIS Gray, 17, from Weald Table Tennis Club, Cranbrook, finished equal first in the gruelling National Junior Masters, a round robin competition taking place between 14 of England's top players, which was held at Burton-on-Trent over the weekend. Lewis, currently ranked England number five, won 12 out of 13 singles. He was severely tested several times, being taken to five games by Sean Cullen (Derbyshire), James Ward...

• Bob shows the way to get ray at the bay

  By Cranbrook People at 08:00 on 22/04/11

  

  ROBERT Harwood Brown joined the growing number of anglers to catch a thornback ray from the Kent shoreline. Bob, competition secretary of Folkestone Sea Angling Association, was fishing at Sandwich Bay – near the Yacht Club slipway is the hot spot – and beached his first ever ray of 6lb. He was using a frozen sandeel on a pulley rig and the fish was measured and returned alive. Other rays reported from Sandwich and...

• Title glory for Gray

  By Cranbrook People at 08:00 on 22/04/11

  

  Table tennis WEALD Table Tennis Club members Lewis Gray, 17, and Yolanda King, 16, won the singles titles at the Butterfly National Schools' Individual Championships, at Doncaster, on Saturday. Gray, from Benenden and representing Kent Schools, having won the under-16 title two years running, stepped up to lift the under-19 boys' title at his first attempt. He was generally untroubled, although he did drop a game before beating...

• DEAL OF THE DAY: Get 56 per cent off a standard ticket to Golf LIVE

  By Barnaby_B at 14:11 on 20/04/11

  

  Now that the good weather has arrived, are you thinking about dusting off those clubs and heading out to the fairways for a spot of golf? Well, Wowcher.co.uk can take you one step further as today's Deal of the Day gives you a chance to get up close and personal with the real pros and ask them how to improve your swing. Golf LIVE is the most interactive and engaging day out in the golfing social calendar and this year...

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