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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

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

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

Promotion this season would be that little bit extra special, according to the Downham Town management team heading into Saturday's play-off final against Harwich and Parkeston.A number of the current squad are local lads while joint bosses of Craig Dickson and Dale Stokes have live and breathed the club since a young age.After a number of near misses, the SCL Memorial outfit are bidding to reach Step 5 football for

King's Lynn’s Danish racer Thomas Jorgensen says the team’s gating simply has to improve – in order to avoid “embarrassing” results such as last Monday.The Stars were humiliated 56-34 on their own track in the KO Cup by a Sheffield side who simply love the Adrian Flux Arena, but the hosts did not make life easy for themselves.With tricky track conditions, making fast starts was of paramount importance, and it

A determined Wroxham Women put home advantage to good use as King’s Lynn Town Ladies mini unbeaten run came to a run on Sunday.The Linnets suffered a 2-0 reverse at a rain-soaked Trafford Park.Head coach JP said after the game: “It’s easy to get caught up in the emotion of losing a derby but we have to remember how far we have come in the last five weeks.“Poor conditions, a

Interim boss Mark Hughes wants the King's Lynn Town managerial job on a full-time basis - but nothing will be rubber-stamped until the club's destiny for next season is decided.The National League North season reaches its conclusion on Saturday - and the Linnets could still clinch promotion on the final day of a dramatic campaign at home to Curzon Ashton.The title race is now out of their hands after AFC

Downham Town clinched their place in the Thurlow Nunn First Division North Final following a convincing 4-1 victory over Whittlesey Athletic.Two goals from Matty Blackford, a thunderbolt from Joe Jackson and a George Watts-Sturrock sealed Downham's passage into Saturday's final where they will take on Harwich and Parkeston at the SCL Memorial Field.The league runners-up controlled affairs from the very first whistle against a Whittlesey side who came into the

Weeting Saxons triumphed in the North West Norfolk League’ League Cup Division Two Cup at the second time of asking after holding their nerve from the penalty spot last Friday.Saxons won 5-4 on penalties after a dramatic 90 minutes had finished all-square at 3-3 after Gayton Old Boys forced their way back into the tie after being three goals down.Weeting had been on this stage before but lost out to