ROWING commentator Robert Treharne Jones is ready to get back behind the microphone, almost a year after suffering a stroke. Known as the “voice of rowing”, he has been a senior race commentator with FISA, the international rowing federation, for more...
HENLEY Rowing Club’s juniors picked up six wins at last Saturday’s Reading Small Boats Head. Conditions on the day were good for the circa 450 crews racing in the three divisions over the 3,700m course from the Roebuck Hotel down to Reading Rowing...
UPPER THAMES athletes returned from the five-day World Rowing Masters Regatta at Spain’s Lake Banyoles last month with an impressive 26 gold medal haul. This year’s event saw 5,428 entries from 725 clubs compete from around the world over the...
UPPER Thames gained success at Peterborough Regatta last weekend. An Upper Thames/RAF composite mixed crew of Rachel Borrows, Fiona Gammond, Ben Farrell and Damen Sanderson raced in the open quads, finishing seventh of eight in band one. Borrows...
SHIPLAKE Vikings women’s J15 squad returned from Staines Amateur Regatta with two trophies. Robyn Fielder, Eloise Taylor, Amelie Chandrapal, Amara Chada and cox Etna Mercadé, who had never trained together, took the honours in the quadruple sculls....
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...