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    Teen kickboxer eyes Team GB after two world titles

    Teen kickboxer eyes Team GB after two world titles

    A TEENAGER who has become a world kickboxing champion wants to compete for Team GB at the Olympics. Fionn Maher, 14, from Binfield Heath, began competing in November 2023 and has gone on to win 13 of medals. Then, in August last year, he became a...

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    First woman umpire of Boat Race on traditional course

    First woman umpire of Boat Race on traditional course

    FORMER Olympic rower Sarah Winckless is set to become the first woman to umpire the Men’s Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on its traditional Tideway course. Winckless, 51, who is a member of Henley Rowing Club, will officiate the world-famous race in...

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    New Year honours for rowers and former MP

    New Year honours for rowers and former MP

    SIX people from Henley have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list. Businessman and former politician Tim Eggar and Paralympic rowing champion Erin Kennedy, of Leander Club, were both awarded an OBE. Three other Leander athletes, who won...

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    Olympic champion nips home for haircut

    Olympic champion nips home for haircut

    A ROWER from Henley came home for a haircut before travelling back to Paris for the Olympic closing ceremony. Rory Gibbs, 30, who lives in Greys Road, sat in the second seat of the men’s eight as they powered to win gold for Team GB. Following the...

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    THREE Henley rowers won gold during an historic women’s quad sculls final at the Olympic Games in Paris. Leander Club’s Georgie Brayshaw, Hannah Scott and club captain Lola Anderson were in the crew with Lauren Henry that beat the Dutch crew by just...

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    PUB PAIR QUIT AFTER DEBTS REACH £1.5M

    PUB PAIR QUIT AFTER DEBTS REACH £1.5M

    TWO entrepreneurs were forced to give up two pubs after accruing debts of more than £1.5 million. Alex Sergeant and David Holliday ran the Bottle and Glass Inn in Binfield Heath and Hart Street Tavern in Henley as separate companies. They were wound...
    Cheers! Regulars celebrate as pub named community asset

    Cheers! Regulars celebrate as pub named community asset

    A PUB in Maidensgrove will be protected for five years as an asset of community value. A group of residents has successfully registered the Five Horseshoes as an asset of community value with South Oxfordshire District Council. The pub closed in...

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