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Downham promoted after play-off final win

Downham Town 4 Harwich and Parkeston 0Downham Town are celebrating promotion to Step 5 of the football pyramid for the first time in the club's history.Dale Stokes and Craig Dickson's side made sure there was no slip-up in this afternoon's play-off final against Harwich and Parkeston with a dominant 4-0 victory at the SCL Memorial Field.The home side scored two goals in either half to send the Reds into the

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Linnets forced to settle for a place in the play-offs

King’s Lynn Town 2 Curzon Ashton 0King's Lynn Town were denied automatic promotion on the final day of the season - and the play-offs are next on the horizon – despite beating Curzon Ashton 2-0 at The Walks.The Linnets held up their end of the bargain by beating the Nash in front of a bumper final day attendance of 2380, but AFC Fylde also won by the same score at

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National News

Britney Spears is a normal sweet and shy person says documentary director

Fenton Bailey, who directed Britney Spears in a documentary about her life, has said she is a “sweet, normal and shy” person. The filmmaker got to know the pop star during the 2013 documentary I Am Britney Jean when she was releasing a new album and had her first Las Vegas residency. Bailey said, when they filmed Spears, as she released 2013’s Britney Jean, he discovered that she is a

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New artwork released for Chicken Run Dawn Of The Nugget starring Bella Ramsey

New artwork for Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget, starring Bella Ramsey, has been released by Netflix. The sequel to Chicken Run, which remains the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time since its 2000 release, is directed by Flushed Away director Sam Fell. Taking up after their daring escape from Tweedy’s farm, the leader of the chickens, Ginger, formerly played by Absolutely Fabulous actress Julia Sawalha and now by Westworld

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Charles Leclerc seals double pole in Azerbaijan despite late crash

Charles Leclerc will start today’s sprint race at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix from pole position. A day after he raced to the top spot in qualifying for Sunday’s main event, Leclerc was fastest again to put his Ferrari at the front for the 17-lap dash in Baku on Saturday evening. Leclerc broke his front wing after thudding into the wall during his final run but the Monegasque’s first effort in

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National News

Muslims mark Eid festival with gathering in central London

Thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to celebrate the Muslim Festival of Eid. Festivities got under way around noon with musicians, comedians and speakers taking to the stage erected at the foot of Nelson’s column. The event, hosted by comedian Ali Official and model Mariah Idrissi, kicked off with a reading from the Koran from speaker Hassan Rasool. Official, 30, said: “British Muslims often feel quite neglected

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Red Roses value to RFU rapidly rising amid calls for fairer financial rewards

England will make history at Twickenham on Saturday amid a call for the Rugby Football Union to ensure the financial rewards available in the women’s game match its growing value to the governing body. The Red Roses host France in a Grand Slam decider with over 53,000 tickets already sold, surpassing the previous highest ever crowd of 42,579 seen for last autumn’s World Cup final against New Zealand in Auckland. It provides

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Stephen Dobbie says were all hurting as Blackpool relegated from Championship

Stephen Dobbie was left heartbroken after Blackpool’s 3-2 defeat to Millwall at Bloomfield Road confirmed their relegation from the Championship. Millwall striker Tom Bradshaw scored a fine brace, including a brilliantly worked team goal after just two minutes, either side of Jerry Yates’ penalty for the hosts. Lewis Fiorini then went from hero to zero for Blackpool after a wonderfully taken goal from outside the box levelled the scores after

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Four-formula action at Lynn’s Adrian Flux Arena

Following a week off, stock car and banger racing returns to the Adrian Flux Arena on Bank Holiday Monday (1pm).Four formulas will be in action at the Adrian Flux Arena in the shape of the two-litre stock cars, two-litre bangers, 1500cc bangers and Reliant Robins.A fantastic entry of cars are expected including many West Norfolk drivers.Austen Freestone heads the local entry of two-litre stock cars and he will be looking

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Local News

‘More and more people are unable to make ends meet’: Food bank reveals almost 50% rise in demand for emergency food

New figures released by Lynn Food Bank have revealed almost a 50% increase in the number of emergency food parcels distributed compared to the previous year.The food bank said it gave out 2,764 emergency food parcels to 6,526 people facing hardship across West Norfolk in the last year – with a third of these going to children. This is a 46% rise on the year before.The level of demand was

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