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THIS PODCAST IS CRAMMED WITH LOCAL FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE SPORTS REPORTS,LISTEN BACK TO HEAR WHETHER YOU GET A MENTION · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports for a daily bringing you the
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  Speaker 1: Folkestone and Hive sports show right here on Radio Folkestone.
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  Speaker 1: On today's show we have football including news from Folkestone
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  Speaker 1: and Victor, Hive Town, New Romney, Hawkingstown, the Folkestone and
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  Speaker 1: Victor disability team. Plus we've got a rugby club, scores
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  Speaker 1: and fixtures. We've got netball news and the story of
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  Speaker 1: local park runs where the Folkestone Optimist Hockey Club did
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: takeovers at both senior and junior events. Is that enough
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  Speaker 1: local content for you? Well, we've got some, if I
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  Speaker 1: can squeeze them in, we've got some sporty snippets as well.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a celebrity birthday song to start the show. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Simon Le Bon. You know Simon Le Bon? Well, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what. I had to look it up. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: that can't be his real name. It kind of suits him,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it? Because in his sort of 80s, he was
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  Speaker 1: like highlights in the blonde hair. I thought of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked it up. It is. His actual real
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  Speaker 1: name is Simon John Charles Le Bon. And he is
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  Speaker 1: actually an MBE. And this week, he was 68th. So
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  Speaker 1: we've got a host of songs in the playlist from
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  Speaker 1: Duran Duran. And I've chosen this track from 1984, entitled
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  Speaker 1: The Reflex. So sit back and enjoy Duran Duran.
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  Speaker 2: The Reflex. The Reflex. The Reflex. The Reflex.
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  Speaker 1: You've gone too far this time.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: From 1984, oh, Duran Duran and the Reflex XXXX. You
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  Speaker 1: remember that one? Do you know what? I keep saying
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  Speaker 1: it on this playlist on the radio station, actually. You
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  Speaker 1: look down and you think, do you know what? I
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard this one for such a long time. Got
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  Speaker 1: to play it. Got to get a fix again, yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so let's start with football and focusing on Victor. Well,
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  Speaker 1: last Saturday, in all that wind, they beat Farnborough 2-0.
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  Speaker 1: Goals coming from Harvey Kedwell and Bobby Kelman in front
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  Speaker 1: of a crowd, whatever, just about over 600. Numbers being
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  Speaker 1: down due to the terrible weather. I mean, I can
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  Speaker 1: remember back in the day where me and Terry looked
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  Speaker 1: out of the PA window and we'd go, cool, it's
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  Speaker 1: looking good. We got about 300 yesterday. But things have changed.
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  Speaker 1: Things have moved on. And if you've been to Folkestone
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  Speaker 1: in Victor, you'll know that there's only two covered stands.
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  Speaker 1: So all the 600, I'm sure. Home and away fans
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  Speaker 1: were like crammed in. And you just imagine the rain
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  Speaker 1: dripping off the edge and you keep trying to push
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  Speaker 1: back out of the way. Anyway, on Tuesday evening, it
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  Speaker 1: was a Kent derby at Tunbridge Angels. But unfortunately, Victor
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  Speaker 1: lost this one 2-0. Jamie Fielding got injured in the
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  Speaker 1: 27th minute, which meant a reshuffle as Aaron Cosgrave came on.
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  Speaker 1: And by the sound of it, I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: AD Dork's Seasiders Radio commentary. Well, it sounded like the
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  Speaker 1: game was a bit flat, really. There wasn't much goal-mouth action.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a good midweek crowd. At that game,
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  Speaker 1: there was 1,071 spectators. Angels' Frankie Baker scored one in
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  Speaker 1: the 77th minute. And as the tries they might have
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  Speaker 1: focused and couldn't get back in the game. And then
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  Speaker 1: they put the nail in the coffin in the 96th minute.
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  Speaker 1: It so happens. It always happens, doesn't it? There's so
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  Speaker 1: many goals scored in that little window between 90 and
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  Speaker 1: 95 minutes. Anyway, next game is on Saturday with an
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  Speaker 1: away trip to Chesham in Buckinghamshire. Hive Town now, they
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  Speaker 1: continue their fine form with a 7-3 away win at Lordswood,
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  Speaker 1: keeping them in third place behind Rochester. This was an
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  Speaker 1: even sweeter victory because Lordswood are actually second in the table.
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday on paper is their toughest test as they
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  Speaker 1: travel away to play a Premier side SE Dons, South
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  Speaker 1: East Dons, remembering the Hive are in Division 1. It's
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  Speaker 1: an FA Vars second round fixture at Bexley Heath. Now
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  Speaker 1: this game is worth £ 900 to the winners and £ 275
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  Speaker 1: to the losers, so we wish them well. In the
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  Speaker 1: Kent County League, another dismal day for Hawkins as they
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  Speaker 1: were beaten 7-0 by Meridian VP. Whereas New Romney, where
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  Speaker 1: did this come from? They had an outstanding turn of
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  Speaker 1: form with a 9-1 win against AC Ashford. Both games
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  Speaker 1: were league games. Fixtures this Saturday see once again two
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  Speaker 1: games in the league. Hawkins are at home to Equinocchio FC,
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  Speaker 1: who come from Bromley, and New Romney are also at
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  Speaker 1: home to Meridian VP, who travel down from Charlton in
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  Speaker 1: south-east London. Now, still looking bleak at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the table, New Romney's win means that the two teams
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  Speaker 1: have now switched places, with Hawkins in last spot, and
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  Speaker 1: they've only got one point, and New Romney above them.
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  Speaker 1: I was second for bottom. They've just got four points. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we've got Halloween on the way, and it falls
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  Speaker 1: on a Saturday, Saturday night, which is kind of good.
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  Speaker 1: It's not much fun when it falls on the midweek,
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  Speaker 1: is it? Well, last week, we were invited to a party.
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  Speaker 1: Sue and I went with Pam and Clive, and we
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  Speaker 1: went to a lady called Karen. And she's a Folkestone
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  Speaker 1: Running Club member, and she put a party on. And, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my word, the costumes were absolutely magnificent, honestly. I had a...
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  Speaker 1: I'd like a skeleton outfit on. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you old athletes will remember when Linford Christie ran 100
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  Speaker 1: metres in a skeleton outfit. Well, I didn't run 100 metres,
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  Speaker 1: but I had the same sort of skeleton outfit on.
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  Speaker 1: And I slapped a bit of white paint on my face.
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  Speaker 1: But some of these people, they were absolutely amazing. Sue went,
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  Speaker 1: she had a sort of a bloodstained nightdress and we
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  Speaker 1: took some pictures of her early on with a carving knife.
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  Speaker 1: And then Pam and Clive, as always, they turn up,
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  Speaker 1: they looked immaculate. Clive was done up as Dracula. And,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, his white hair turned black, slicked back. And
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  Speaker 1: Pam was the, well, the most glamorous devil I'd ever
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  Speaker 1: seen for a long time. So, anyway, if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to a Halloween party, this song has got to be
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  Speaker 1: on the playlist. Anyway, actually, this song, there was, Karen,
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  Speaker 1: it belongs to a salsa group, you know, the sort
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  Speaker 1: of sexy Spanish music. Anyway, they'd obviously been practising, but
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden this track came on, and they
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  Speaker 1: did a fantastic rendition of Thriller by Michael Jackson. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to play this at the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's close to midnight Something evil's lurking from the.
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  Speaker 1: Dark Well, that track will be out every Halloween day
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  Speaker 1: till eternity. I think that is such a good track,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? And I've been sort of having a little
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  Speaker 1: jig around in the studio here because I'm on the
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  Speaker 1: mic at the Dover Waterfront Halloween Park Run on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And there was great fun down there. So I'll be
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  Speaker 1: there in my skeleton outfit playing a bit of Michael Jackson. OK,
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  Speaker 1: moving on. So I want to get this story in.
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  Speaker 1: So this is really important to me. Now, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago, myself and my partner Sue went to
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  Speaker 1: visit an old friend of mine, Keith Lyon, who hadn't
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  Speaker 1: been very well lately. Well, Keith spent a long time
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  Speaker 1: in hospital after a serious illness, but he's at home
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  Speaker 1: now recovering, which is good news. Now, Keith and I
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  Speaker 1: go back a long way, actually, to the days of
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  Speaker 1: when we used to go down the first club in
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  Speaker 1: the sort of 80s and 90s. Sue and I used
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  Speaker 1: to go running and Keith would appear after finishing an
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  Speaker 1: indoor rowing session, which at one point he did represent
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  Speaker 1: Great Britain. Now he joined us at the Folkestone Running Club,
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  Speaker 1: but he was one of these crazy athletes that wanted
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  Speaker 1: to run ultra marathons. And I mean, this was brought
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  Speaker 1: up until last year. He's done so many in the
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  Speaker 1: last few years, you know. And if he wasn't running ultras,
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  Speaker 1: he was out on his bike recently having completed the
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  Speaker 1: London to Brighton bike ride. Now, Keith is a Liverpudlian
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  Speaker 1: and always said that he would show us around Liverpool
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  Speaker 1: if ever we went up there. So Sue and I,
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  Speaker 1: one weekend, we booked up, a long weekend in fact,
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough, he took us around to some lovely places.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, we would never have found them ourselves. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we did the, you've got to do it when you're
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  Speaker 1: in Liverpool, if you're a Southerner or a Londoner like me.
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  Speaker 1: We did the magical mystery tour of Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields,
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  Speaker 1: and saw the houses where the Beatles grew up. And
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  Speaker 1: we visited the cavern, which I absolutely loved. And if
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  Speaker 1: you've been to the cavern, you will know that it's
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  Speaker 1: not the actual original cavern. I think there was some
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  Speaker 1: building works done. And they kind of moved it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But, you know, to me, it was the cavern. Now,
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  Speaker 1: being a tourist in Liverpool, it was an amazing experience
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  Speaker 1: growing up with Beatles music. And one thing I always
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do was go on the ferry across the Mersey.
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  Speaker 1: So we did. Now... It was nothing special, just a
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  Speaker 1: ferry boat trundling across a river. But to me, it
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  Speaker 1: was a magical ship in Liverpool at the height of
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  Speaker 1: Beatlemania and was portrayed vividly by Gerry and the Pacemakers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was just, when you're growing up in
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  Speaker 1: that era and you... living with that song, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just conjure up these amazing images in your head
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  Speaker 1: of a magical place, you know. Now, do you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I was exploring the internet today and it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: the old Snowdrop, the original ferry built back in the 60s,
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  Speaker 1: has been struggling for a while and it's out of service.
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  Speaker 1: And whilst the new 26 million pound ferry, the Royal Daffodil,
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  Speaker 1: is undergoing essential works before it can carry any passengers.
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  Speaker 1: So at the moment, currently, there's no ferry across the Mersey. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Keith and Julia, Sue and myself have many stories to
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  Speaker 1: tell about running and about our trips to when we
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  Speaker 1: used to meet up in Cyprus. And that would take
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  Speaker 1: up a whole show on its own, I'm sure. So Keith,
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  Speaker 1: Speedy Recovery, this track is for you. Now, when I
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  Speaker 1: heard this song on the ferry, because it's played every
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  Speaker 1: time across in his main, I could just imagine the
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  Speaker 1: crew going, oh, no, not that song again. Turn it off. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, I love it. Keith, this is
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  Speaker 1: for you and Julia. Sit back and enjoy Jerry and
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  Speaker 1: the Pacemakers and Ferry Cross the Mersey.
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  Speaker 2: MUSIC PLAYS Life goes on day after day.
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  Speaker 1: Hearts torn in every.
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  Speaker 2: Way So very cross the Mersey The place I love
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  Speaker 2: and here I'll stay.
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  Speaker 1: And here I'll stay.
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  Speaker 2: Here I'll stay.
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  Speaker 1: Here I'll stay.
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  Speaker 2: Here I'll stay.
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  Speaker 1: Very cross to Mersey there. Written in 1964. And it's
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  Speaker 1: nice to know that Jerry Marsden of Jerry and the
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  Speaker 1: Pace Makers actually wrote that song. It was not written
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  Speaker 1: by another songwriter. And it just, you listen to the
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  Speaker 1: lyrics there and it just portrays the love he had
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  Speaker 1: for his hometown of Liverpool. And I learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: about Liverpool and the Beatles, and they do have, I
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  Speaker 1: do believe Keith was telling me, they have a weekend
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  Speaker 1: where there's like a Beatles tribute act, and they all
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  Speaker 1: fly in from all over the world. Hong Kong Beatles
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  Speaker 1: and German Beatles, and they just want to sing Beatles songs.
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  Speaker 1: And I must admit that in the weekend that we
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  Speaker 1: were there, just going around the songs, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of it all, I was a bit beetled out. I
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  Speaker 1: do love the Beatles songs, but just imagine those crewmen
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  Speaker 1: on the ferry across the Mersey. Every time they went across,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how many crossings that snowdrop did since the
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  Speaker 1: early 60s. Must be into the millions. OK, moving on,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: a bit of football now. Yeah, I've still got some
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  Speaker 1: more football news to tell you about. Now, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a soft spot for folks in Invicta's disability team, having
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  Speaker 1: watched them on and off over the years. So on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I decided to brave the cold, windy weather and go
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  Speaker 1: out and watch them play against a Chelsea disability team
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  Speaker 1: at the Three Hills Sports Park. Invicta started well and
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of early chances, but Chelsea took the
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  Speaker 1: lead from a throw-in which bounced over the defender and
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  Speaker 1: a Chelsea forward placed it into the net. About ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, Chelsea found the net again after Invicta felt
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: they should have had a foul against them, but the
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  Speaker 1: goal stood. However, they came bouncing back, Josh Kendall latching
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  Speaker 1: onto a through ball to make it 2-1. Invicta then
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  Speaker 1: took the lead with a corner from Troy Harding at
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the box. He lobbed the keeper to
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  Speaker 1: make it 2-2. So he didn't take the lead, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: he drew, that's right, he brought it back to 2-2.
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  Speaker 1: And the goal... I was at the end, if you
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  Speaker 1: know the Three Hills Sports Park, I was tucked right
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  Speaker 1: up at the far end by the grammar school, back
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  Speaker 1: against the hedges. And I just thought, I'll just do
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of video in. And sure enough, I
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  Speaker 1: actually caught this one, caught Troy's goal, and I posted
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  Speaker 1: it on my Facebook page if you want to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Troy then scored another goal, which was even better than
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  Speaker 1: his first. Being a bit further out this time, he
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  Speaker 1: looked up and once again lobbed the keeper, making it 3-2.
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea were pressing for the equaliser. And it came after
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  Speaker 1: Invicta failed to clear the ball and it was hammered
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  Speaker 1: into the net in the final minutes to make it 3-0.
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  Speaker 1: So all in all, a really competitive match with a
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  Speaker 1: much improved because I went up with the team last
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  Speaker 1: year up to Cobham, the Chelsea training ground, which is
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: just wall-to-wall, back-to-back football pitches. It's amazing. It's probably about
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  Speaker 1: the size of Hawkins, the whole area. And they got
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  Speaker 1: stuff that day, to be fair. but it was a much,
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  Speaker 1: much even game today. The man of the match deservedly
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  Speaker 1: went to Troy Harden for his two goals, and I
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  Speaker 1: must admit it was worth going out in that foul weather. OK,
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  Speaker 1: a bit of rugby news now. Well, not a good
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  Speaker 1: weekend for the Folkestone Rugby Club, with the first 15
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  Speaker 1: losing 34 points to 7 away at Maidstone, and the
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  Speaker 1: seconds narrowly losing 28 points to 21 at home to
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  Speaker 1: Snowdon Colliery. This weekend sees the first 15 at home
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  Speaker 1: to Aylesford Bulls, And the second's at home to Deal
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  Speaker 1: and Bettsanger. So plenty of action going on at the
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  Speaker 1: Burlington Fields if you fancy watching a bit of rugby.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Now if you can't make it on Saturday, then why
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  Speaker 1: not pop along on Sunday where the ladies are at
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: home to Sevenoaks. So form-wise this weekend for the three teams,
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  Speaker 1: the first 15 are 7th out of 12 in their league.
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  Speaker 1: The second 15, well they're a little bit out of sorts.
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  Speaker 1: 9th out of 11. And the ladies are 4th out
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  Speaker 1: of 8. So All in all, this, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: far into this season, you know, not a bad adult
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  Speaker 1: start to the season. OK, we've got this one there
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  Speaker 1: from 2001 out of Stereophonics. Stereophonics Have a nice day.
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  Speaker 1: What a great track. I mean, have a nice day.
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  Speaker 1: When I first used to hear that, it was like
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  Speaker 1: an American saying, wasn't it? Have a nice day. But
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: now it's caught on and it's quite a common saying
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  Speaker 1: in England now. Right, so we've got now a bit
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  Speaker 1: of netball news, yes. Now the Folkestone Netball League this
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  Speaker 1: Saturday are holding their annual mixed tournament where at least
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  Speaker 1: three men are allowed on court at one time. And
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  Speaker 1: being Halloween, players are encouraged to play in fancy dress.
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  Speaker 1: But the fun ends when they step onto the court
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  Speaker 1: and play, and the men are expected to do their bit. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the men normally consist of partners or husbands or ladies
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  Speaker 1: who no doubt have been coaching them all week. The
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  Speaker 1: day starts at 9 o'clock and finishes approximately at 3pm.
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  Speaker 1: And in the past, I've gone along and seen a
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  Speaker 1: mass of players with their picnic hampers and making a
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  Speaker 1: day of it. I mean, the weather looks sunny and dry,
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  Speaker 1: which is good. So if you want to go along
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  Speaker 1: and meet the teams and perhaps inquire about playing, this
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  Speaker 1: is a perfect opportunity. Now, I've been down there in
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  Speaker 1: recent years and it's a great fun day, actually, if
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  Speaker 1: you love your netball. Of course, they've got these new two,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: these two, well, they're not so new now, might be
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of years old now, but I do remember
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  Speaker 1: when they were refurbished and they made a fantastic job
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  Speaker 1: of them. And the netball has now become more and
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  Speaker 1: more popular in Folkestone with the leagues and teams travelling
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  Speaker 1: down from Ashford to play. but the actual tournament was
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  Speaker 1: good fun, I remember watching, you're allowed three, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the positions in netball, perhaps you ladies out there
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  Speaker 1: think I should do, but, um, you're allowed three men
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  Speaker 1: on the court at the same time, basically, one at
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  Speaker 1: the front, one in the middle, and one at the back,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the positions, they have all these
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  Speaker 1: big letters on their, um, tabards, don't they, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what they stand for, but, um, but if
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  Speaker 1: you watch it, it is exciting and a fast game, and, um,
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  Speaker 1: Watching the scoring, you could play the game and you
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  Speaker 1: could easily lose tracker if you're winning or losing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: some of the nets go in so quick. Anyway, as
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: October comes to a close, the folks in the Netball
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  Speaker 1: League must be praised. They've done a great job because
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: they've been supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The players have
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  Speaker 1: been wearing pink accessories such as pink socks, hairbands, ribbons, makeup,
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  Speaker 1: anything that's pink, apart from their team colours, of course.
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  Speaker 1: And they've been collecting donations after each game throughout the
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  Speaker 1: month to pass on to the charity. And I do
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  Speaker 1: believe in recent years that when they've had these tournaments,
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  Speaker 1: they do make a donation to the charity. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to find out about that one before I say anything.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say that I was up at the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Hawkins Community Centre. Yesterday it was. And I noticed a... Well,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I noticed it was. I noticed a notice on the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: board which said about Little Nets, which is a netball for...
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: School children. Now, in the past, we've had lots of
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: netball guests on, and there isn't really a structured system
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: for juniors in this area. There's no leagues. I mean,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: when you're at school, certainly when I was growing up
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: at school, certainly in primary school, it was football and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: cricket for the boys and netball for the girls. But
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: they only play netball when our friend Sarah Green from
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the Sports Trust goes down and does kind of an exhibition. Anyway,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it looks like this team called Little Nets have sort
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of cottoned on to this idea. And by the look
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of it, there's two ladies that are avid netball players,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and they are encouraging youngsters, when I say youngsters, primary
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: school children, to come along and play netball. And so
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I have sent them an email and I'm hoping to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: get a response, find out a bit more about it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And you never know, we'll try and get them in
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: on the show. Right, well, staying with the sort of
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Halloween spooky theme, I love this song and I don't
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: play it very often, but there's one time that I
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: do play it. Now, in November, I am comparing a 10K,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: 10 mile run over in Ramsgate for Coastal Striders. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: they have a race, and they call their race the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Coast Buster. So we've got to dig this one out
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and play it, haven't we? Every time they start the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: race over there, the juniors and the seniors, I always
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: put this one on, turn it up loud, sit back
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and enjoy Ray Parker Jr. and, of course, Ghostbusters.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: MUSIC PLAYS.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Well, from 1984 there, Ray Parker Jr. and the Ghostbusters.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And I must admit that that film took America and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: eventually this country by storm, didn't it? It was amazing.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And the special effects were brilliant. But I mean, the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: track itself, you think, oh, when you, But when you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: hear it, you just can't help but tap your toes
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and kind of, you know, sing along to it. OK,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: what have we got now? Well, it's, oh yeah, it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: all about the park runs last weekend. And now in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: hockey terms, it was what they call a slip week,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: which normally means a week off. However, there were a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: couple of fixtures, but this gave Folkestone Optimist Hockey Club
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a perfect opportunity to do a double takeover, let's get
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: this right, a double takeover, as it's known, both at
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the Senior Park Run on Saturday and the Radnor Junior
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Park Run on Sunday. On Saturday, the timing was perfect
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: as the winds were due in the afternoon and for
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: once the forecast was spot on. The Ops liaison man,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Phil King, was there early setting up, putting up the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: blue and white Ops flags and bunting, which are the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: colours of the club. I was lent an Optimist hat.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Phil King, I had a hat on, Phil said there. Oh,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: do you want a blue and white hat for? Yeah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: why not?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So I made an introductory speech explaining to the crowd
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: what exactly was going on as the ops players took it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: They took up 19 of the 24 volunteer positions, including
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: 30-plus runners, boosting the numbers into 402 that crossed the line. Now,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I say 19 out of 24. There are certain positions
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that basically you've just got to be, if you like,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you know, add a bit of time... trained on if
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you like positions like uh the bar scanner you could
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: learn that in a day if you're sort of tech
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: savvy um but you know for some people they don't
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: always want to do that sort of thing there's the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the time keepers that's quite a bit of a pressure
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: there but um so they didn't do all the jobs
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: um now run director brian austin said he said his
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: little bit welcoming tourists and first timers and they set
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: off i put i was there with my bit of
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: music i played one song that really pumped up and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: then turned it down quick, and that was the Rocky theme,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and it goes down really well at the start of
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a race. Now, the takeover by the Ops was to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: celebrate their 100th anniversary, and they now boast 650 members
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and 300 junior members. They field 15 teams on a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Saturday and countless junior teams of all age categories on
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a Sunday. Now, a notable performance came from a former
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: guest of the show and first team player, Tom Bean.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: who came second place in the actual run. It's not
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a race, it's a run. But he was running in
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: his full hockey kit, carrying a hockey stick and wearing
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: his shin pads. Special mentions must go to Ops centre-back
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Danny Tomlinson and Meg Scott, who achieved PBs. Neil Bristow
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: returned after a bad Achilles injury and Laura Minister achieved
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: her fastest park run in 2026. Big thanks also goes
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to Ops players and another former... Oh, sorry, to Ops player...
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and another former guest of the show, Phil King. He's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: been attending the park run in recent weeks, learning a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: lot of the volunteer roles, so he can pass it
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: on to his colleagues. On Saturday, he welcomed the first-timers.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He does a mini-briefing so that they know exactly where
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: they're going and what's going on, and then he took
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: on the duties of timekeeping. Now, Phil was the link
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: between the park run team and the Ops Club, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a great job he did too. Then on Sunday, I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: headed off to the Radnor Park Junior Park Run after
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: having an extra hour in bed, where there was takeover
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: number two. This time Rachel Coppin was the liaison between
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the club, and the flags and the bunting went up
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: once again, and the club found 33 volunteers and an
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: old guest, so I reckon there was about at least
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: 20 juniors in their hockey shirts running the course. Once
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: again the rain held off and it was a great morning.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I gave out the same welcoming speech, in case anybody
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: wondered what was going on. I handed it over to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a run director, Kirsty Bristow, and she gave her a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: little official speech, which they have to do every week,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to be fair, sort of a safety issue there. But
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: then I handed it over to Adam Coppin from the club,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: who had the children warming up, and away they went. Now,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: there were lots of smiley children with glowing faces picking
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: up their finishing tokens, rushing off to tell their mums
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and dads how they got on. So once again, a
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: very successful junior park run. Now I must just say,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it was a great idea by the folks at Optimist
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Hockey Club to do a double takeover and put the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: club's name out there, even if they have been out
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: there for 100 years. Well done to them. People like
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Phil King and Rachel Coppin's show should be congratulated on
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: their enthusiasm. Seniors or juniors, if you want to get
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: back into hockey or even start playing, the Optimists would
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: love to welcome you. Just go to their Facebook page
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: where you'll find links for emails, websites and other social
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: media platforms. And so, as Phil King said, on behalf
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of the Ops, allez la bleu. Radio. Oh, excuse me.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Now then, do you know what? I could play Beatles
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: all day long when they're sitting here. Well, for an
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: hour at least. So I've decided to play another Beatles song. Now,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: this one took me back to my trip, mine and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Sue's trip, on the Magical Mystery Tour, as, um, this
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: song was, well, I'll tell you what it is now,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it's called Eleanor Rigby, now, Eleanor Rigby, apparently, was a fictitious, uh,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: character in the song, but it just so happens, there
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: was a real person named Eleanor Rigby, who existed in Liverpool,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and she was actually buried in a church, with a headstone, and, um,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And so the Wikipedia says it's the exact church where
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney and John Lennon first met in July 1957.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And I do remember the tour guide pointing out that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: as we drove past this particular church, they said there
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is a gravestone in there with Eleanor Rigby in it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But really, it's got nothing to do with the song.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. You know, there's a little underlying
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: theme there that Paul McCartney knew what he was doing. Anyway,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: sit back and enjoy from 1966, Eleanor Rigby.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I look at all the lovely people I look at
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: all the lovely people Eleanor Rigby Do they all come
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: from All the lovely people Do they.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: All belong to It always finishes suddenly, that one, doesn't it?
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: And catches you out. Right. Excuse me. Do you know what?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I think I'm losing my voice. There's so many events
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and quizzes and comparing I do just recently. I'm sure
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the voice is getting a little bit croakier. Because last Friday,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I was the quiz master at a quiz for Chris
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and Angie Addison as £ 900 was raised that evening for
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: his charity called Compassion for Children. Chris and Angie's charity
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: supports disadvantaged children in poor areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Chris is a very sporty person, being a long-standing member
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of the Folkestone Running and Athletic Club and the Hive
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and Saltwood Sailing Club. Both clubs bring in many members
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: along to support them. So well done to both for
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: working so hard behind the scenes and raising £ 900, for
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: which we'll go straight to the charity. Talking of quizzes,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: there's another quiz coming up at the Three Hills on
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Friday the 13th of November. where, once again, I will
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: be the quiz master. Now, this is for a lovely
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: lady called Leila DeMond. Now, she's raising money for a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: charity called Free To Be Kids in her goal to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: run the London Marathon in 2027. Free To Be Kids
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: help London children... that's right children from London who are
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: struggling with complex disadvantages to feel included adventurous proud and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: successful often for the first time in a long time
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: so why not put a team together six in a
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: team it's a five or each it's a fun evening
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: contact myself on Facebook or Layla and listen to this Layla,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: L-A-Y-L-A dot Demont, exactly how it sounds, D-M-O-N-T-E at gmail.com.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: And there'll be a raffle, and there's going to be
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: some awesome prizes. So, do you know what? I'm in
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: 60s mode now, so I'll go back to 1965. Same
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: sort of era. I love this one. This is the Hollies.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Look through any window.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Look through any window yeah what do you see holly's
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: there 1965 and uh yeah this is uh it's funny
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: how this show's turned out really it started off with
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: ferry across the.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Mersey and i'm I'm really in 60s mode now. I'm
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: going to get home and get a 60s, what do
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you call it, compilation CD out and put it on
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and turn it up loud. Right, we've got one more
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: news item now. And it's a lovely item, this, because
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: congratulations to go to one of our very own radio presenters,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Senior Bispen. He's known on the radio as Stevie B. No,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: not Stevie B. I got told off for calling him
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Stevie B. He's Steve B., Now, Steve loves the game
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of table tennis and was recognised by the Cloud Athlete
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Pride of Table Tennis Awards for his dedication to the sport.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: He's been a loyal servant of the Folkestone District Table
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Tennis Association for many decades, not years, decades. Now, Steve
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: came on the show a couple of months ago and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: we had a fascinating chat about table tennis in the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: 80s when a lot of the bigger teams, sorry, a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: lot of the bigger firms in Folkestone had a team.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, in them days... A lot of the big firms, including...
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I used to work for Vauxhall in Luton, and they
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: had a fantastic sort of social club-type atmosphere.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And, of course, you need a lot of space for
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a table tennis team. But he was telling me it
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: was really good in those days. He still plays a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: couple of times a week and has been the association
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: secretary for around, I think he's lost count, for around
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: 30 years and was really chuffed to be recognised for
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: his volunteer work. And so I tell you what, I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: must get him back in the studio because we were
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: chatting away and I think we barely scratched the surface.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: He's such an interesting man. So having sort of been
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: recognised now, I think he should be a very special guest.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I can't believe the time has gone so far. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to try and get this one in and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: then wrap it up. So this is moving up to
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: 2002 now. Sophie Ellis-Bexter and music gets the best of me. Well,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that's the end of the show today. That's, uh, Sophie Ellis-Bexter,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Music Gets the Best of Me. And, uh, what a
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: great show. I've really enjoyed it today with this variety
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of music, uh, all sort of impromptu stuff, all spawning from, um,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the fact that we started playing Ferry Cross the Mersey, uh,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Ferry Cross the Mersey, and sort of ventured into 60s music, um, Now,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: if you ever want to come on the show and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you've got a real good sporty story to tell, then
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: just get in touch. We'd love to hear you, hear
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: your story. And, uh, it's a great experience to come
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: in and be on the radio. Okay. I'll tell you
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. Something different. Now I'm going
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to play out with my theme song and my theme song.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Sometimes get asked, what is it? Uh, this is a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: grooving with Mr. Blow is, and a Mr. Blow was
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a person that would, um, be good, uh, on the mic, uh, microphone,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: mouth organ or harmonica. So, uh, Let's just gently fade
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: away with Grooving with Mr. Blow. Well, that's it from
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: me for this week. I won't be in on Saturday
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: as I'm on the mic at the Dover Waterfront Halloween
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Park Run. So tune in between 10 and 11 where
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you can listen to 80 dorks. Have a spooky Halloween, everybody.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: on 105.9 FM, online at radiofolkston.com and on your smart speaker.