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CRICKET+FOOTBALL+COASTAL 10K+CYCLING+BLISTER SISTERS+ RACE FOR LIFE+CLIFFTOP CHALLENGE · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin's Sports Firite daily here on one oh five point nine Radio Folkston,
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bringing you the sports show from our Folkston and Hive region. On today's
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show we have a roundup of local cricket scores, a report on the Folkston
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coastal ten k, some local football news, updates on the Race for Life
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and the Cliff Top Challenge, and a report on a team of Blister sisters
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who ran from London to Paris, and a story about our very own drive
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time presenter Tim James to recycling from Frankfurt in Germany to Folks them raising money
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for local charities. And we'll find a few more sportish snippets thrown in for
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good measure. So let's start the show with the feeling and I love it
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when you call found of sweet Carried from two thousand and seven. They are
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from a Freemason's bailey zook and a song called Uninvited. Now. Last weekend
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as a Bank holiday weekend and has served up a mixture of weather. However,
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Saturday was a lovely sunny day for cricket with all our local teams in
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action. Folks on first eleven won the toss and decided to bat against Sidcup
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and they made two hundred and seventy three runs in their fifty overs, losing
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eight wickets. Rueman Ahmed making one hundred and fifteen and ex England international James
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Treadwell sixty one. Sidcup could only manage one hundred and seventy five, so
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Folks then winning the game by ninety eight runs. This puts Folks on top
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of the table. Harvell from Gravesend are second, both clubs having played and
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won three games each. Now at the moment, I can only think that
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folkst on the top of the table because f comes before each and the alphabet,
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as both teams have identical records. This week is at away fixture against
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Old Wilsonians, which means a trip very near to Bromley Hawkins. You were
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at home to Why who won the toss and decided to bat, making one
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hundred and fifty four all out. Hawkins then took to the crease and made
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one hundred and fifty seven, winning the game by two wickets. This Saturday
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there once again at home, this time Sheppey are the visitors. Hive Cricket
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Club traveled to Egerton. They won the toss, batted first and made one
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hundred and ninety eight runs. They then bowled Edsiton out for one hundred and
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forty one, winning the game by fifty seven. Next Saturday, Hi They're
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at home to Kennington. Meanwhile, in the local derby between Saltwood and hythe
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Green, the Green won the toss and decided to put Salward into bat,
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who made one hundred and seventy four runs. The Green then made one hundred
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and seventy seven, winning the match by six wickets. Next Saturday, hythe
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Green are away to Willsboro and Salward are at home to Tendon. In a
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close game at Sipton Park, the Sibs batted first and made one hundred and
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ninety nine, then visitors Borstal from Rochester made two hundred one, winning the
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game by two wickets. Now, all these clubs play in. All these
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clubs in our region play in the Kent Cricket League, which is huge.
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It consists of thirty divisions spread regionally over the county. However, please remember
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some of the big clubs can have as many as five or six teams and
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once you get to the Premier Division you could be playing anywhere in Kent.
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Now let me give you a rundown of how it works. There's a Premier
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Division, a championship. We've got divisions one to four, then from Division
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five down to Division fourteen. Believe it or not, this has subdivisions.
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So I know it's early days, but here's a rundown of how our teams
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are doing so far. Folks in first eleven are in the top spot in
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Division one, walk into top of Division eight in the Shepherd section. Sipton
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Park are eighth in Division five in the Hurricane section and in Division nine.
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In the Shepherd section we have four teams Hive Cricket Club, a third hith
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Green of fifth, Saltward to seventh and the Folkston Third eleven are ninth.
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Now throughout the county, all these divisions have ten teams. Now, last
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bit of trivia. The subdivisions are Hurricane and Spitfire which need no explanation,
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and the other three subsections have the surnames of three former Kent players, John
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Shepherd, Alan Knott and Derek Underwood. So there it goes. So a
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little bit of a cricket overload there, But is summer is the cricket season
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and it'd be interesting to see where those teams finish up at the end of
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the season. Okay, time for a bit of music now, James Morrison,
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and you give me something Folkeston's local radio station, Radio Folkston. Fine,
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you came back, take that and back for good. There. That's
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a bit of a mum's favorite these days, isn't it? Take that they've
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been back on the road again. They were up at the O two and
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a friend of mine she went up to see them with her friends, right
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and the Beg gang of if you like senior ladies. And then a couple
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of days later she went back up there with a daughter. So that is
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what you call fan base, isn't it. Yeah, So they're still going
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and they're still making some great chunes. Well, now let's talk about the
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Coastal ten K last Sunday. It was the Folks in Coastal ten K,
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organized by race director Ray Johnson. Well, the weather during the race was
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sunny and breezy. The race started at ten o'clock, but when I began
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setting up my bits and pieces of pa stuff at seven o'clock it was cloudy,
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raining. It was miserable. Luckily for the runners and spectators alike,
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it all cleared up because as you probably know down on that lower prom if
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the weather's bad there's little or no shelter. They were around thirty in the
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children's race which get off at US nine, and then nine hundred and twenty
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two finishes in the senior race, which was won by Nick Collins from Ashford
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District Road Running Club in a time of thirty three minutes thirty six seconds.
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Toby Smith from Deal tri Club was second just forty seconds later. First male
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runner home for the Folkston Club was Prakash Gurum and first female home from the
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club was his wife Aanda. What a great running duo they must make,
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by the way. The win female was Laura Smith from Hallam Sheer Harriers in
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a time of thirty five minutes twelve seconds. She loved the race as it
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was so flat her, not like her home area which is a hilly Sheffield.
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And I just got to say that the it even Meridium were down there
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and they put some lovely pictures on the Meridian News. So if you get
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a chance to check it out on the old catch up TV you might see
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yourself if you were down there. Now. Some South Kent Harriers took part
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the first runner male home for the Harriers was Chris Cook in thirty eight forty
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six and the first female was a Jennifer Spilane in fifty two minutes forty eight.
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Folks and Running and Athletics Club came away with both the men's and the
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ladies team prizes and due to the flatness of the course and the weather being
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kind I say kind. It was a bit breezy, but I mean it
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wasn't too bad. It could have been a lot worse down there. There
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were many pbs. One excellent performance came from former guests to the Sports Show
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Louisa Eid who came first in her age group female vet forty five. Now
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she'd run all that London Marathon, fantastic event, and she still told me
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that she was nervous before the start of the little Old ten k. Now
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the race celebrated its thirteenth birthday this year and is attracting runners not only locally
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but from all over the country. And it was hoping to raise thirty thousand
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pounds well for various charities. Okay, now coming up, we've got a
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track. It's called One Night in Heaven by m People and ever listened to
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this, Listen to this, lovely voice of the lead singer, Heather Small
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One Night in Heaven. They're from M people. Now. I've often wondered
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what the M stands for. No one ever asks it today, but they
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just it just rolls off the tongue end people. Now. Some of the
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other great tracks they made moving on up, Search for a Hero and one
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song, one song that I never thought would you'd be able to do a
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cover was Itchy Koo Park, but she made a great job of that.
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Okay, now what we've got We've got some football news now, Well,
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there's not much football news going to around at the moment, as managers talk
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on phones trying to get players signed on groundsmen and volunteers carry out jobs to
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spruce up their stadiums. But I've got a couple of football snippets to tell
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you about. Hawkins Town departed company with their first team manager Mike Sheridan,
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assistant Dan Porter, and first team coach Liam Dixon. Manager Mike Sherion Sheridan
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issued a statement and it seemed he'd taken the team as far as they can
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go and wishes now to stand down and seek a new challenge, remembering they
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did finish second last season, so it all seems quite amicable and this now
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gives Hawkins time to start looking for a new management team. And before the
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end was even dry when I was writing this report, I discovered that they
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Hawkins had moved very quickly and announced the new manager, Andrew Crush has been
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at the Helm for Dealtown Reserves for the last two years with incredible success and
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takes over from Mike Sheridan with immediate effect. This has come a very good
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time in the football season as it gives the new manager time to get to
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know his players and vice versa. Meanwhile, goalkeeper Joe Coleman has decided to
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leave Folkston Now. He decided this at the beginning of May. Last season
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Invictible in a couple of new signings, knew goalkeeper signings and Joe was confined
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to the bench. He stuck it out season, which is a sign of
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loyalty to the club, but it was announced on the twenty fifth of May
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that he signed for Hive Town, which I think would be a good signing
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for Hive as Joe is looking for regular first team football and has now got
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to prove himself down at Reachfields as he probably wasn't part of Invictor's plans going
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forward in the meantime, in Victor themselves assigned experienced goalkeeper Johnny Henley from Tunbridge
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Angels. Okay, so time for a bit of music now and we're going
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to have zach Abel and what Love is? I might have to lose myself
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in a bit very well good again, dove camera on there and a bad
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idea. Okay, So moving on now. So there's that time of year
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for challenging yourself, stepping outside the box, going the extra mile, you
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know what I mean. It could be wing walking, a bungee jumping,
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skydiving. Well, one of our very own presenters has devised his own challenge.
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Drivetime presenter Tim James has been working on and off in Germany and that
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has now finished, so he's decided it's time to come home. Well,
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Tim has decided that he wants to cycle home to folks them from his former
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workplace, which is actually Frankfurt in Germany. It's six hundred kilometers away.
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That's about four hundred miles. Yes you heard that right, four hundred miles
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now. Tim set off from Frankfurt last Wednesday and plans to make the trip
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back weather dependent over the next few days. Now we're probably taking more than
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a few days. That might be a week. You never know, will
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we ever see him again? Now, he's raising money and awareness for several
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local causes and they are as follows, the Dover Counseling Service, the Shed
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which is in HIH which helps people with disabilities and learning difficulties, the Folks
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in Rainbow Center which helps families experience deprivation and hardship. And one example is
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the food Bank. Folks to Music and our very own radio Folks to them.
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Now, Tim has a just given page which I will post on my
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Kevin Daily Facebook page and it will also appear on the Radio Folks and page
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of course. Now if you'd like to support Tim, he would set himself
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a target of twenty five hundred pound, which now stands and the last time
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I looked it was six hundred and sixty pounds. So cycling all that way
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from I mean, he's doing it on his own. It's not like a
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sort of organized trip. You know, he's probably got to work out his
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own stops, and if he's got a puncture, he's got to get off
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the bike and do it himself. Under he really is quite a daunting challenge,
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so good luck to see him. I'm sure we're here. More about
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that as the reports come through. Okay, let's move on now, and
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we've got a song or a group is just says here a Monika five point
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nine, the sound of Folkstone Radio Folkstone, Annie Lennox there walking on Broken
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Glass and another excellent female vocals vocalists. You know, I think I'd love
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to do well at least half an hour's spell where if you could pick out
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the you know, really strong female vocalists. We've had Hea a Small What
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a great voice she's got there, go Annie Lennox, people like Tina Turner,
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Celine Dion and one of my favorite and I really really wished I Tina.
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She was down at the Leedes Cliff Hall, and back in the day
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I was working, it was Alison Murie and what a powerful voice she had.
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And it's just, I don't know, there's just something about strong female
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voices like right, So some more summer charity eventues now. First of all,
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well done to the Blister Sister runners, who are Joe Bonner, Luise
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Leggett, Tiker Barrow, Sarah Walker and Becky Young. Now, last week,
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these determined five ladies out from London from London Wimbledon Tennis Club in fact,
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and each ran a half a marathon a day for four days and ended
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up finishing crossing the line together underneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I mean
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they run down to new Haven, got the ferry across. There was no
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pulsh hotels. I've seen the pictures. It was just like camping overnight wherever
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they were. Now their brave effort raised an awesome three three hundred and forty
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five pound for two charities, Parkinson's UK and SAFFA which stands for Soldiers,
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Sailors and Airman's Families Association. So congratulations to you all, to all the
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blistered sisters, I really hope to chut with you soon a NAVA chat.
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Now, the Cancer Research UK Race for Life comes to focus on June the
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ninth on the Lees. This year sees three options, a three K,
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a five K and a ten k and don't forget you can walk, jog
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or run, it doesn't matter and they all start at ten thirty. Now
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we've lost count of how many years myself and warm up Lady Joe Thompson have
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been hosting this event and I know it's more than twenty it's probably knocking on
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for twenty five years now, so why not just check it out online.
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It's a family event, you know, you can bring the kids, bring
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your husband with you and raise some money and we can all try to help
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stamp out this terrible disease. Now. Just a week later, I should
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be on the mic at the sold out Clifftop Challenge in Deal to celebrate ten
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years of raising money for breast cancer now and I look forward to catching up
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with the many runners from Folkston and I have who support this event. Clifftop
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Challenge was started a decade ago by Chantel Rashbrook, who herself was diagoned with
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breast cancer but she still loads a very active, full on life. The
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event finishes on the Green at Walmart on Saturday the fifteenth June, and if
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you're not running, they just come along and support the day and listen to
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some live music. It really has got a kind of a festival carnival atmosphere,
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you know, you really really to come along, just spend a day
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there, bring a picnic, that's what people do and they even like hire
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tables out and which all the money raised goes to Breast Cancer nowt So what
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you need to do is just put Clifftop Challenge twenty twenty four into the search
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box for all the information, including a very moving YouTube clip which will make
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you want to contribute something to the day Park run this week at the Folks
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and Park Run where there isn't one for some reason I can't remember why.
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There's something else going on up the lease, so no Folks in the Park
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run. The Dover one was canceled last week, and it happens it's going
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to be canceled every Bank holiday, isn't it. The traffic was horrendous.
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There's no way that people could get into the dock to get to Europe and
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let alone get to the waterside front or as they call it, waterfront.
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That's it. I always call it just a Dover part run, but it's
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actually the waterfront. So but there will be one this week. Sorry,
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I'm getting all tongues idea. There will be a Dover part round this week.
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We've got a new date for the High Bay Triathlon that was canceled recently.
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The new date for that is Sunday, August the eighteenth. Now it's
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been brought to my attention that a piece of music linked to sport doesn't get
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the recognition it deserves. Back in nineteen eighty five, double Olympic gold winning
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decathlete Daily Thompson advertised the sports drink of Lucas aid and to this particular track.
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So I want to say hello to the team. It's grew Fix morning,
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Screw Fix. How you doing. I hope you're not taking too much
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time off to listen to the show. Now. Mark Kadia, better known
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as CADS, made me aware of this track. Now, Kads is a
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bit of a mean guitarist himself, and do you know what, I've just
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been talking to Ross and it looks like there could be an open We haven't
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really got a heavy metal section, so it's something we might have to think
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about, Cads. So anyway, I want to say hello to Kads,
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to Adam, to Jules, to Lewis, to Ryan, to Matt and
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JP all at Screwfix, as I say goodbye to you lot next week.
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And so what we're going to do is we're going to listen to I Am
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Maiden and Fansom of the Opera. Now, it took a little while to
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find his track, Cads, so get those lads back to work and I
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will see you sometime at a race.