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Jenson returns home with five wins from Kimbolton Festival

It was a perfect weekend for Marshland St James kart racer Jenson Sayell at Hunts Kart Racing Club’s 2023 Kimbolton Festival over the weekend.Nine-year-old Sayell won five out of five races, took the fastest lap in each race (and qualifying) and was voted Commentators’ Cadet of the Weekend.Saturday’s qualifying session set the grid for Heat 1. Sayell took his Micromax to pole position with a time of 48.00 seconds around

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Home soil success for Hepher after seniors victory

Simon Hepher enjoyed a good day at the office by winning the Norfolk Seniors’ Championship at the golf club where he works – Middleton Hall.Hepher, who runs the shop at the West Norfolk club, used his day off to fine effect as he fired a four-over-par 75 and clinched victory by two shots.Local knowledge came in handy for Hepher, especially on the back nine. He showed a cool head on

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King’s Lynn’s skipper counts his blessings after horror smash

King’s Lynn skipper Nicolai Klindt admits he’s counting his blessings after the horror crash which ended his season.Klindt was brought down in a freak accident in Poland last Sunday when racing for Gdansk at Ostrow, when opposing rider Oliver Berntzon lifted into the fence and then slewed back across on to the circuit.Berntzon was then powerless to avoid wiping out both his team-mate Francis Gusts and Klindt, with the Dane

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Banwell is in the mix for victory on his home track

Jake Banwell will face the biggest challenge of his racing career this Saturday (4pm) when Stock Car Championship fever comes to the Adrian Flux Arena with a massive double header featuring the 1300 Stock Car World Championship and 2L Stock Car British Championship.Banwell is the only local qualifier in the 1300 Stock Car Worlds and will start the big race on the fourth or fifth row depending how the draw

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Lynn return with a point after sharing spoils at Curzon Ashton

King’s Lynn travelled to Manchester to take on Curzon Ashton on Tuesday night in their second successive away match.After Saturday’s shock of a 3-0 defeat at last year’s play-off rivals Chester, the Linnets were hoping to bounce back and register their first victory of the league season.The game started with both sides wary of each other. Tom Hughes fired in Lynn’s first shot of the match which went wide of

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Linnets hoping to tame the Tigers in home league test

King’s Lynn Town will welcome Gloucester City to The Walks tomorrow in their fourth league game of the new season.The Tigers have not had the best of starts to the campaign, losing 4-2 at Blyth Spartans on the first day of the season and 2-0 at home to Banbury United on Tuesday night. Their single point came from a 1-1 draw at Bishops Stortford last Saturday.Gloucester City have this week

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A-Level Results Day 2023: KES celebrates as 70% of all grades at A*-C

King Edward VII Academy Sixth Form in Lynn is celebrating a great set of A-Level results with 70% of all grades at A*-C.The sixth form is delighted to have achieved another year of Level 3 success, including 100% pass rate in the Cambridge Technical Sport & Physical Activity course with Hayden Lambert achieving a triple Distinction*, and Ben Isaacson, Charlie Royle and Ethan Wilson signing professional football contracts.These results mean

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A-Level Results Day 2023: College of West Anglia sees 63% of students getting A*-C grades

Students at the College of West Anglia in Lynn celebrated receiving their A-Level results, alongside friends, family, and staff.This year, 63% of A-level students achieved grades A*-C, with an overall pass rate of 95% (grades A*-E) across all A-level programmes.CWA vice principal curriculum and quality Kerry Heathcote said: “I am pleased that the efforts and hard work which has been shown by our students and teaching staff have been rewarded

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A-Level Results Day 2023: Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge among next steps for Springwood’s high achievers

There were celebrations all round when Springwood High School’s Class of 2023 received their A-Level results, with a fifth of students gaining an A* or A grade, and two-fifths achieving A* to B grades.In a year when fewer A* and A grades have been awarded nationally, 21% of Lynn-based Springwood students achieved the equivalent of one A or A* and two Bs to win the accolade of Norfolk Scholar.Due to

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A-Level Results Day 2023: Students find out results today

Hundreds of students across West Norfolk have today discovered their A-Level results, which will open the gateway for university or their chosen career.Students at Downham Market Academy, Fakenham Academy, Swaffham’s Nicholas Hamond Academy and King Edward VII Academy, Springwood High School and The College of West Anglia in Lynn all get their results today.National reports have suggested students should prepare themselves for lower grades this year and increased competition for

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