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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

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

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

King’s Lynn MacInnes Stars have suffered another huge injury blow with captain Nicolai Klindt hospitalised after a horror crash in Poland.Klindt, who has recorded a string of high scores for the MacInnes Stars this season, was brought down in a three-man pile-up during the Ostrow v Gdansk fixture on Sunday.He has suffered a broken neck in two places, with a C3 fracture, although mercifully there are reported to be no

King’s Lynn Town go into tonight’s away game on the back of a 3-0 defeat at Chester on Saturday.Tonight the Linnets travel to Manchester side Curzon Ashton who are currently lying third in the National League North, having gained a win and draw from their first two games.King’s Lynn, on the other hand, have just a single point from their opener at home to Hereford last weekend, whilst Linnets manager

Chester City 3 King's Lynn Town 0King's Lynn Town were left searching for their first win of the campaign as on-loan goalkeeper Ronnie Sandford had a baptism of fire between the posts.Sanford - signed from League Two Milton Keynes Dons as cover for the injured Tommy Dixon-Hodge and Paul Jones - was at fault for two goals as the Linnets were punished for their errors in Cheshire.Linnets boss Mark Hughes.Zak

Seven West Norfolk Swimming Club members were in action across two Swim England National competitions in the last fortnight – with one of them taking a national title.Firstly, Esmie Kidman, Jamie Wilson and Wiktoria Marcinek contested the Swim England National Open Water Championships at Thryburgh Lakes, Rotherham.West Norfolk’s day began with Kidman’s 5km race, a distance in which she is the reigning Norfolk champion. A strong and consistent swim saw

The Linnets travel to Chester on Saturday, with both sides looking to register their first wins of the season.Mark Hughes’ side were held to a 2-2 draw in an absorbing affair against Hereford at The Walks on the opening day, whilst Chester were defeated 2-0 in a surprise result away to newly promoted Bishop’s Stortford.King’s Lynn’s Jordan Ponticelli was named in the Vanarama National League North Team of the Week

It was a day of attritional stock car and banger racing at King’s Lynn on Saturday.With several visitors including overseas ones already en-route, the decision was made for the Pre 80 Banger and 1300 Stock Car meeting to go ahead despite heavy rain throughout most of the day.Unsurprisingly, there were several late cancellations due to the conditions but the drivers and race teams who did attend should be applauded for