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Hackney Gazette - Text only page News LEWIS QUITS AS SCHOOL GOVERNORBoris Johnson s embattled former aide Ray Lewis resigned as a governor from one of Hackney s flagship schools on Wednesday...... MORE BUS DISRUPTION ON THE CARDSCOMMUTERS could face more misery if a 24 hour bus strike over a pay claim by drivers goes ahead on Friday. The first bus drivers are due to walk out at 3am in their bid to get a pay increase...... RUSH HOUR MISERYEMERGENCY work on a gas main has caused rush hour misery for hundreds of commuters. National Grid engineers had to close part of Lower Clapton Road between Powerscroft Road and Median Road because of a leaking gas main underneath the road last Friday...... QUESTION TIMEDavid Dimbleby is coming to Hackney next week as politicians are given a grilling by members of the public. The veteran broadcaster and host of the BBC TV s Question Time is bringing the programme to the borough on Thursday (October 9)...... SHAQUILLE ACCUSED IN COURTFour teenagers accused of stabbing a 14 year-old boy to death outside his home in east London appeared at the Old Bailey today (FRI). Victim Shaquille Smith was knifed in the stomach as he sat on a bench in Hackney on August 30 this year...... MENTAL HEALTHCARE OUTRAGEA leading mental health charity has predicted the number of suicides in Hackney will rise as it faces a swingeing cut in council funding...... PAIR BANNED FROM ESTATETwo yobs who police believe steered younger kids into a criminal lifestyle through fear have been booted out of their estate in Lower Clapton...... REMAINS TELL ONLY HALF THE STORYDetectives have completed their search of an allotment where a woman s dismembered skeleton was found buried. Det Insp Andy Chalmers, leading the investigation, said the lower half of Julie Dorsett s body has still not been found...... PUB NOTICE ROWAn Upper Clapton pub has been forced to take down a notice discriminating against travellers following complaints about the illegal sign...... SERIOUS ROAD ACCIDENTS ON THE INCREASEShocking new figures suggest the borough s roads are becoming ever more hazardous for pedestrians and cyclists...... Letters BAN THE BIKESTREVOR Parsons, of the London Cycling Campaign, is sadly misinformed if he thinks I am opposed to inconsiderate footway cycling (Letters, September 4)...... DANGEROUS PRECEDENTTHE world has become a more dangerous place. As I feared, Russia has been allowed to get away with its attack on Georgia...... BIN THERE, DONE THATAT last! Hackney Council s outrageous propaganda sheet, Hackney Today, gives sound advice. Just bin it screams the current headline. So I did...... SPENT FORCETHERE were two articles in the Hackney Gazette (August 7) which sum up the way money is spent in Hackney. The first was the sculpture in Shoreditch Park. I was quoted the cost of this as £110,000...... TAKE THAT TO THE BANKHAVING not bothered to collect money owed to it recently, Hackney Council abandoned more than £40 million...... ATTACK ORDEALI WOULD like to thank through your pages the people who came to my aid in London Fields on Monday, September 1. I was biking across at about 9.45pm from the Martello Terrace entrance when I was attacked by a man after my bike and bags...... CLEAN SWEEPTHE next Clean Up Clapton Day will be on Thursday, October 23. Information stands and activities will be focused in and around the B6 college, near the Lea Bridge Road roundabout...... EVEN LESS FOR PENSIONERSI AM appalled at what I see going on around me. As a pensioner, I wonder how long this government is going allow people to swindle us out of our hard fought-for pension...... WASTE OF MONEYNOW the mayor has returned from China, how curious that rather than providing residents with a transparent account of all the investment opportunities he has signed up for 2012 that will guarantee long-term benefit to those who live in Hackney...... COURAGE IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDYON Sunday, accompanied by the Rev Joyce Daley, the borough dean, I visited the mother of Shaquille Maitland-Smith. The Rev Daley and myself placed flowers and a card of condolence on the railings near where the stabbing occurred...... Sport Depleted VP&TH so close to titleBy Phil Ravitz A HEAVILY depleted Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets AC ladies team were denied their first women s league title at Braintree on Saturday, when they were pipped for this season s Southern League Division 2 crown by just seven points! After four... Second place has no silver lining for IdowuPHILLIPS Idowu is determined to overcome the disappointment of missing out on the Olympic triple jump title in Beijing, by winning gold in London in 2012. The Hackney born and raised triple jumper fell short in his attempt to put a golden finish on an exc... A date with destiny for Phillips in BeijingTODAY (Thursday) is the day of destiny for Phillips Idowu, the Hackney born, hot favourite for the Olympic triple jump final in Beijing. Idowu, Britain s only real pre-Olympic favourite for a track and field gold, breezed through Monday s qualifying, nee... VP&TH distance pair show that they mean businessPAUL Martelletti won the London Business Houses five mile road race, an event that was totally dominated by Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets AC athletes. Martelletti was first home, just edging out his clubmate Dave Alcock, with both VP&TH men recording the... Perri's off to China after all!By Jonathan Clegg PERRI Shakes-Drayton has received a late invitation to join the British Olympic team in Beijing after she was officially named this week as one of the country s top medal hopes for London 2012. Shakes-Drayton, who was controversially omi... VP&TH on the up for the second time runningVICTORIA Park & Tower Hamlets AC are back as a Southern League Division 1 club, after a five year break, for the third time in their history. It all went VP&TH s way on Saturday, as they won their home meeting in the sixth and last meet of this season s l... When Humphrey said jump, Phillips just did itBy Phil Ravitz THE man who introduced Phillips Idowu to triple jumping, feels that his protégé s attitude has changed sufficiently for the Hackney born jumper to win gold in two weeks time. This year Phillips has proved he can perform well under pressure... VP&TH prove they're a second-half team!FOOTBALL has always been the sport of two halves, but after last Saturday s comeback at Mile End Stadium, Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets ladies might think that athletics is another sport where a similar outcome is possible. Certainly in the early stages o... Perri prospers nearer homeA WEEK earlier, she had been in Switzerland, trying unsuccessfully to gain the Olympic A standard in the 400 metres hurdles. Last midweek, Perri Shakes-Drayton (pictured below) was much nearer home, at the Ashton playing fields track at Woodford, running... Phillips exhibits the look of a championBy Phil Ravitz PHILLIPS Idowu got the victory he wanted, at the weekend s Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, to take to the Olympic Games in Beijing, that begin tomorrow (Friday) week. The Hackney born triple jumper – Britain s only red hot favour... Pops helps put GB in sight of the EurosPOPS Mensah-Bonsu, the former Hackney White Heat product, continues to star for the Team GB basketball team, that requires just one more win to qualify for next year s European Champion-ships in Poland. On Saturday, in Liverpool, Pops who has only recentl... Now Eboni turns her attention to the stars of the courtHACKNEY fledgling reporter Eboni Ferguson is certainly getting to meet the borough s sporting stars. Eboni, a basketball player with the Leyton-based Spartans Excelsior team, who hails from the Nightingale Estate, Clapton, is on the Leyton Orient FC s med... Pops shows power in defence in qualifiersBy Phil Ravitz POPS Mensah-Bonsu, the former Hackney White Heat young player, who went on to play in the USA with the Dallas Mavericks, had a mixed start to his career as a Great Britain international. Drafted in by the GB management team, that includes f... Best of basketball tuition at the ArenaTHE Hackney Girls Basketball Club got the best of tuition when they attended the 02 Arena s Summer of Sport basketball week, which took place at the Greenwich venue last week. The borough girls team had coaching in how to improve their shooting skills, t... Big week for Pops with a GB debutIT was a big week for former Hackney White Heat product Pops Mensah-Bonsu last week, as the 24-year-old guard, signed a one year deal for Spanish club Badalona and made his Great Britain debut, all in seven days! Mensah-Bonsu, formerly with the Dallas Mav... White Heat too hot for rivals at Hoops tournamentHACKNEY White Heat were crowned Teenage Hoops Champions at SPACe Hackney Community College on Friday following a thrilling final against Hackney Free and Parochial. The White Heat prevailed 77-64 to win Hackney s newest basketball tournament after they we... Pops told to focus if he's to make GB squadBy Phil Ravitz FORMER Hackney White Heat forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu has been told he will need to apply himself, with less than a month to go before GB s training camp goes into action. GB senior coach Chris Finch, who is assisted by Tony Garbelotto, forme... College crown a 10 month campaignHACKNEY Community College s all-conquering basketball teams ended their longest ever season by retaining the English Schools national cup for a fourth successive year – but only by the narrowest of margins! The Hackney mens team overcame arch rivals Barki... Hackney players in for GB teamTHREE Hackney Community College players and one former College student have been selected to represent Great Britain under- 20s at the forthcoming Europ-ean Youth Championships in Romania next month. Darryl Bethune, Ali Fullah and Michael Ochareobia, all... It's Gr-r-eat for Tony and his TigersBy Phil Ravitz TONY Garbelotto, head coach of London United, the Hackney based former British Basketball League outfit and senior coach to Hackney College s community programmes, is heading up the Everton Tigers bid for BBL honours in the coming season.... Grant is back with a bang!GRANT Skehill made it seven wins out of seven on Friday night when he outpointed durable veteran Billy Smith at York Hall. Now his trainer Babatunde Adejayi is hoping to get his fighter back in the ring quickly in order to build on this latest victory. Ha... Wayne aiming for his fifth winHACKNEY s Wayne Alwan Arab takes on Nottingham s Matt Scriven in a Micky Hellier dinner show at the Café Royal Piccadilly tonight (October 2). Arab, who has won all four of his professional fights so far, will hope to continue his winning sequence. Previo... Reid reaches for win over lofty opponentLUCIEN Reid, from Haggerston, outpointed Adam Thomas from the Favershaw ABC, on a Repton Boys Club open tournament at Bethnal Green Technology College on Saturday. It was a contest in which Reid came forward from the opening bell, but with Thomas having... Now Belshaw joins potential opponent Audley in unimpressingBy Ken Sellek A WEEK ago, promoter Frank Maloney was saying that his Hackney trained heavyweight Scott Belshaw would be a suitable opponent for Audley Harrison, if Harrison s promoter Frank Warren was interested. The previous Saturday, in Manchester, Harr... Alwan Arab leaves Cook in latest departureWAYNE Alwan Arab is the latest Hackney boxer to follow the recent trend of switching trainers. Last week, GazetteSport announced that Anthony Small had left his Hackney based trainer Brian Lawrence and that Tony Salam, from Stoke Newington, had joined sou... Skehill moves up a weight for win number sevenGRANT Skehill, from Haggerston, will go for his seventh professional win on the Sports Network promotion at York Hall, Bethnal Green, at the end of this month. Skehill, a former amateur international, when with the Stepney based St George s BC, has won hi... Larry to make debut on Euro fight nightTHE night of Friday, October 17 will be a big one for Hackney boxing and for boxers from Clapton, in particular. That is the night that Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, will witness Ian Napa s second tilt at landing the European bantamweight title, wh... Small splits from trainer LawrenceANTHONY Small, who fights tomorrow (Friday) night on a Sports Network promoted charity dinner show at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, has split with Hackney champion-maker Brian Lawrence. Lawrence, who took over the under-achieving Small s training five m... Time to change your trainers as Salam switchesBy Phil Ravitz TONY Salam will step back in a ring for the first time since his professional record had a massive dent put in it by Courtney Fry, when he fights on the Maloney promotion at Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, on October 17. Salam was surp... Champion Napa recalls night his fortunes changedCLAPTON s Ian Napa looks back on the night he lost to Italian Simone Maludrottu in a European title fight at Dagenham s Goresbrook Leisure Centre in March last year as the turning point of his long career, writes LEN WHALEY. For that points defeat again... More injury woe for paceman ChambersMAURICE Chambers, the Hackney educated, 20-year-old Essex fast bowler, won t bowl another ball this season. Chambers season is over and on Monday he went under the surgeon s knife to have a bony fragment removed from the back of a joint , according to... Stoke Newington CC run out of ideasSTOKE Newington CC competed in the recent Edmonton CC tourney against 10 other sides from north London and their young side gave a highly creditable performance. The team – the only representatives from the borough – contested a tournament played under Gu... Hackney teams can't keep Lea Valley Cup at homeSIX teams contested the inaugural Lea Valley Cup – an under 13 s competition devised by Stoke Newington Cricket Club – and four of them, including the hosts, were from Hackney. But despite providing over half the entry, the trophy went outside the borough... Eight men Fields pull off a fine winLondon Fields 306-7, Camberwell Beauties 206 FIELDS took only eight men to meet Camberwell Beauties at Dulwich, but still managed a 100 run win. The Hackney side had scraped a slender one wicket success against the south Londoners just a month before, but... Poor batting sees Fields fall in revenge bidLONDON Fields paid the price for a poor display with the bat as they crashed to a four-wicket defeat against Village cricket club on Saturday – just a fortnight after thrashing the same opponents. Two weeks ago Fields had put on a near-flawless performanc... Bardoli lose a run battle with BatleyBatley 116, Bardoli 108 BARDOLI hosted long distance visitors Batley from west Yorkshire on Sunday at Walthamstow and failed in their run race to overhaul a relatively modest 116 total set by their northern visitors. The Stoke Newington side were quickly... Juniors book place for league super six phaseVictoria Park Jnrs 142-4, Goodmayes 125-5 VICTORIA Park Juniors have qualified for Division One in the Victoria Park Community Cricket League after topping their group with a 17-run defeat of Goodmayes on Tuesday. Juniors clinched first place in the Green... Palladino bowls himself into Championship top 10TONY Palladino reached the top-10 in the LV County Championship Div 2 bowling rankings this week, but his efforts weren t enough to prevent Essex from crashing to defeat at Worcester, writes JONATHAN CLEGG. The ex-Hackney schoolboy claimed three early wic... Big season expected from new 'Ambrose'A CHANCE meeting in a Hackney street put Maurice Chambers on the road to becoming a professional cricketer. Here, the former Homerton schoolboy speaks about his plans and hopes for Essex and himself. Maurice recalls: I was living in Hackney and I had ju... Big season expected from the new 'Ambrose'A CHANCE meeting in a Hackney street put Maurice Chambers on the road to becoming a professional cricketer. Here, the former Homerton schoolboy speaks about his plans and hopes for Essex and himself. Maurice recalls: I was living in Hackney and I had ju... Four-midable Rangers stay clear of the packHackney & Leyton League LEADERS Clapton Rangers maintained their four-point lead over champions Lapton after an emphatic 4-1 victory over Prince Regent. Rangers took a one-goal lead into the interval, courtesy of Daniel Senghore, and Tope Olatoju, James S... Rangers' seconds ram nine past newcomersEast London Sunday League EAST Moore B stormed into round two of the London Junior Cup as they beat Real Wanstead 5-1 with goals provided by Matthew Wheeler, Richard Chriteson, Daniel St Louis, plus a brace from Ryan Anderson. There were shocks in the Pr... Contenders' clash has honours evenHackney & Leyton League IT s only two weeks into the season, but Sunday s clash between London Sunday Intermediate Cup winners Eureka and reigning champions Lapton was undoubtedly a meeting of two of the contenders, even this early on. It ended 1-1, Shane... Downs hit back to deprieve Athletico of opening winEast London Sunday League A HACKNEY derby in the Premier Division saw new boys Athletico Hackney storm into a 3-0 lead against Hackney Downs A, thanks to efforts from Segun Oladapo and Ricky Eden and an own goal, but were eventually held to a 3-3 draw in... Borough treble winners set for another strong campaignBy Phil Ravitz LAST season s twin treble winners Lapton and Clapton Rangers will be confident of making a winning start to the new Hackney & Leyton League campaign, when the league gets underway this Sunday. Lapton, champions in the past two seasons, begi... Whelan trio nullified by Wentworth revivalBy Phil Ravitz PROMOTED pair Clapton Rangers and Wentworth Arms both began their Premier lives with victories. Wentworth featured in one of the games of the day, when they met the always competitive Albion Manor. The Goldsmiths Row side had a hat-trick he... High scoring draws feature for openersTHE East London Sunday League made a tentative start to its new campaign last Sunday, with just three Division 1 games being completed to herald the season. There should have been five games scheduled, but a Division 2 clash between Byron Athletic and Adr... Lisbie repays Ipswich by crushing his old clubBy Phil Ravitz KEVIN Lisbie is quickly making in-roads into repaying the £600,000 fee that Championship side Ipswich Town paid for him from the Tractor Boys East Anglian neighbours Colchester. And the latest instalment that the Dalston born and raised st... Handful of games sees league underwayTHE new East London Sunday League campaign gets underway, in a small way, this weekend, when 10 clubs play their opening fixtures. There are no Premier Division fixtures, as the league technically gets fully into action the following week – with a full pr... Kandol is first to notch for a new clubBy Phil Ravitz IT was a close run thing, but Tresor Kandol, the Stoke Newington based forward, who joined Mill-wall just two days before, on loan from Leeds United, was scorer of the first goal in the Football League in the new season. Kandol, who as repo... Disappointment for Dervis in first eventTHERE was disappointment for Hackney s Paralympic hope, swimmer Dervis Konuralp, at the Paralympic Games in Beijing that began last weekend. Dervis, from Mare Street, Hackney, who is the borough ambassador for the 2012 Games, didn t qualify for the final... Sharon wins a silver double in six weeksBy Phil Ravitz A DISABLED Hackney woman who learned to play competitive badminton in six weeks, took two silver medals at a recent Four Nations tournament in Wales. Sharon Jones Barnes, from Timber Wharf, Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, has overcome tremendou... When membership of the Manor meant so much!Phil Ravitz reporting A REAL Hackney institution that still plays a large part in the life of men of a certain age from the borough and around, has it s story told at a museum just over the borough boundary. In neighbouring Waltham Forest, that borough... Second place in handball for borough teaMHACKNEY were one of the competing six east London boroughs in a London Street Games festival arranged by Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme in conjunction with a couple of other agencies. Newham Sports Centre, Prince Regent s Lane, Newham was venue... Idowu makes time to talk to media hopefulsBOROUGH teenager Eboni Ferguson was one of three budding young journalists who got a last minute word with Phillips Idowu, before the great Hackney hope, Britain s only hot favourite for an Olympic athletics gold left for Beijing. The event was the London... Lloyd has his work as coach recognisedLLOYD Boateng, 19, who works for Leyton Orient Community Sports programme in Hackney, has had his work recognised by the receiving of a Hackney Youth Award at the recent ceremony. I was very flattered and it shows to young people in the borough, that the... Silver haul for Clapton rowers at the NationalsA GOLD eluded Hackney s Lea Rowing Club at the National Championships at Holme Pierrepoint, Nottingham, last week, but the Clapton based club still returned with four silver medals. Up against the best young talent from Scotland and Wales, as well as gues... You can never be bored with darts says JustinWITH the dart boards of east London disappearing faster than you can say one-hundred-and-eighty , a handful of local pubs are bucking the trend and clinging to history by retaining a local oddity – the Fives dart board. The standard board, known as the... Cardinal Pole finish fifth in English Schools finalCARDINAL Pole, Hackney, came a highly creditable fifth in the recent English Schools Cup final, for junior boys, at the Costello Stadium, Hull - a final that attracted some of the top athletics schools in the country. The Kenworthy Road school felt that... Tunde lands gold as his teammates sufferTUNDE Judon was the star of the local contingent in the London team for the annual English Schools Athletics Championships at Gateshead over the weekend. Tunde won the blue riband junior boys 100 metres title, setting a new record for his age and distance... More gloom for a depleted LionsLee Valley Lions 5 Romford Spitfires 7 Lee Valley Lions dismal start to the new season continued over the weekend as a lack of players through injury and work commitments played havoc once again. The team was only able to ice two lines on Saturday again... Double loss to open season for LionsLee Valley Lions 4, Vectis Tigers 9 THERE was an expectant crowd at Lea Bridge Road for Lions opening game of the new English Ice Hockey League season, but they were left wondering whether Lions had actually signed more than one defenceman. It was a very... Lions clash with Tigers as a fresh campaign beginsTHE new English League ice hockey season gets underway this weekend and Lee Valley Lions will be hoping to build on their improved form of last season. Lions start their season with a double header, hosting the Isle of Wight s Vectis Tigers at Lea Bridge... Lions lose trio who re-locate abroadLEE Valley Lions have lost three of last season s regular squad for the new campaign which begins in a fortnight s time on September 13. A trio of the Lea Bridge based Lions have opted to go abroad, with local boy Paul O Neill relocating to Spain, Alastai... Lions' good omens for next campaignIT was a season full of highs and lows for the Lea Bridge Road based Lee Valley Lions. The team improved on the previous season, finishing an extra place higher in the English National League Ice Hockey table and scored particularly notable victories over... Season's end comes to soon for in-form LionsLee Valley Lions 3, Invicta Dynamos 5 LEE Valley Lions brought the curtain down on another season at Lea Bridge Road with a thrilling game against the high flying Invicta Dynamos, from Kent. In their third season since re-forming, Lions have finished the... Lions go goal crazy as they deluge the DevilsLee Valley Lions 12, Gosport Devils nil LIONS fans weren t disappointed when they turned up at Lea Bridge Road to see if their side could reproduce the form shown in the final six minutes of last week s narrow defeat by near neighbours Haringey Greyhound... Lions' late rally not in time to avoid defeatLee Valley Lions 4 Haringey Greyhounds 5 LOCAL derbies are notorious for being full of passion, in view of the amount of pride at stake. Earlier this season, Lions went down 8-4 to the Hounds, but the pride and passion was there in abundance. It was expe... Lions take the sting out of Hornets' replyLee Valley Lions 7, Bracknell Hornets 5 LIONS scored just about the best victory of their season so far, when they lowered league leaders Bracknell Hornets colours at the Ice Centre, Lea Bridge Road on Saturday. The Berkshire side had been very comforta... The seven-year-old karate kidsTWO Hackney youngsters, both aged seven took third place trophies at the recent Toyakwai Greater London karate championships held in Dagenham. Romahn Flemmings and Tyrell Weekes-Harper are both members of the Olympic Karate Inc squad (formerly the Insha... Crown's little Miss Dynamites gain black belt doubleTWO young sisters are the youngest recruits from the Crown & Manor youth club, to have achieved first dan black belts in karate. Zeniece Hall, aged seven and her sister Zahna, a year older, have just been awarded their ultimate accolades. The pair have tr... Griffins out of touch on season's eveHendon 21, Hackney 10 THIS was far from the ideal preparation for Hackney RFC s new campaign in the Herts-Middlesex Div 3, which begins this weekend away at Watford. The Griffins looked decidedly rusty in this last preparation game and at no time did th... Promoted Hackney's away start to seasonBy Phil Ravitz HACKNEY Rugby Football Club, last season s Herts-Middlesex Division 4 champions, will start the new campaign in a fortnight s time in Hertfordshire. The Griffins, now up in Division 3 after their first promotion in over 20 years, have to m... Griffins celebrate in some styleHACKNEY Rugby Club celebrated their promotion in style with an open day and an end-of-season party at Spring Hill. They closed their successful season with an emphatic win over Kings Cross Steelers in a friendly fixture, the Newham based Steelers being la... Hackney on their way up!Hackney 34, Hatfield 19 HACKNEY Rugby Club are on their way up and out of the Herts-Middle-sex Three as champions. The Griffins maintained their 100 per cent success rate at home at Spring Hill, Clapton, on Saturday, with the 34-19 victory over midtable... RFU recognition as rugby bug strikes Stoke NewingtonTHEY have only been playing rugby at Stoke Newington Media, Arts and Science College for two years and already the Clissold Road establishment has been recognised by the Rugby Football Union. Last month the college nominated for a RFU Presidents XV award... Griffins are ready to let the celebrations beginBy Phil Ravitz CELEBRATION will be the name of the game on Saturday week, when Hackney RFC throw the gates open at Spring Hill, Clapton, hopefully acknowledging the club s first promotion in several seasons. The Griffins should have completed the task of... Bulls continue to grow and growFROM small acorns – would seem to be maxim that the Hackney Bulls junior rugby club has followed. In October 2003, a couple of coaches provided a couple of taster rugby sessions for youngsters at Clissold Park. Four months later, the Hackney Bulls were... Hackney one win from promotionChess Valley 10, Hackney 43 HACKNEY RFC are one win from capturing the Herts-Middlesex Div 3 North title and should clinch the title and promotion in their final game at home to Hatfield on Saturday week. The only opposition standing in the Spring Hill ou... Griffins have higher league opponents tottering in friendlyHackney 22, Old Tottonians 7 THERE were a lot of good omens in this friendly fixture for Hackney. Their opponents, Edmonton s Old Tottonians play in the division above the Griffins – Herts & Middlesex Div 2 North – the standard that top-of-the-table Hackn... Vital win sees Griffins up push for promotionHackney 17, Borehamwood nil HACKNEY s outstanding season continued as they notched up an eighth straight win with this vital top-of-the-table victory over fellow promotion chasers Borehamwood at Spring Hill. The Griffins now sit two points clear at the to... Baton passed to Dervis to bring Hackney Beijing goldTHE baton of bringing Beijing gold to Hackney has been handed from Phillips Idowu to Dervis Konuralp. The Paralympic swimmer left for the Chinese capital last weekend knowing if Hackney is to have a gold medallist before the 2012 Games come to his native... Dervis - the Olympic choiceDERVIS Konuralp, Hackney s Para-lympic ace swimmer, has had his selection for the Beijing Olympics confirmed. Dervis, from Central Hackney, who has won two bronze medals at previous Paralympics, will be off to the Chinese capital to compete in the Games t... Dervis picked for the Beijing GamesDERVIS Konuralp, Hackney s Paralympic swimmer, heard last week that he had been selected for the Paralympic Games in Beijing, China. Dervis who has won two previous bronze medals at previous Paralympics is the only London swimmer selected in the British s... Dervis has Beijing in sightDERVIS Konuralp, the Paralympic swimming champion from Hackney, moved a step close to booking his flight to Beijing and set a new British record in the process. He swam the 100m butterfly in a record time of 01:02:48 at the first of two trials to qualify... A busy time for Clissold clubCLISSOLD Swimming Club, Hackney, competed in two galas in as many days recently. On Sunday, 24 of the club s competitors in the East London mini league gala, held by Leyton SC. It was Clissold s first time in this gala and they did excellently to finish s... Emily is only dual champion at club finalsIT was almost by way of a celebration as Hackney City Tennis Club acknowledged their golden summer of success in junior tennis by staging their annual club finals at Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, on Sunday. The club which has enjoyed its most successful... Hackney City celebrate summer of unbridled successHACKNEY City Tennis Club are celebrating their most successful summer that has establishing themselves as the best youth tennis set-up in Middlesex. No other club in the county can come close to the Clissold Park based club s successes this summer season,... Anne makes British tennis history in defeatANNE Keothavong s thrilling, surprise run to the third round of the US Open ladies singles, was ended in straight sets by the Olympic gold medal winner Russia s Elena Dementieva at the weekend. Anne, the England number one, from Hackney and world ranked 8... Anne ends wait for win at US OpenANNE Keothavong, the number one English women s tennis player, became the first British player to win a ladies singles match at the US Open at Flushing Meadow, for 11 years, when she beat Alexa Glatch of the USA, 6-2, 6-2 on Monday. The win was the first... Scottish trip is crowned by Lauryn's winA TWELVE strong contingent from Hackney City Tennis Club spent 16 days on tour in Scotland earlier this month. The group from the Clissold Park based club stayed in Glasgow, despite competing in the capital Edinburgh during the first week of their visit.... Anne's Centre Court exit is no whitewashBy Ziad Chaudry ANNE Keothavong can take great encouragement from her performances at Wimbledon last week. The 24-year-old British number one from Hackney ended her short but successful SW19 run in round two after giving defending champion Venus Williams... Jubilee and Grasmere are in winning formTWENTY schools from across the borough took part in the Hackney Primary School s tennis tournament last week in three age groups. The mini red group was for school year three, there was a mini orange section for school year five and the mini green categor... Battling Keothavong sets up Venus clashBy Ciaran McGrath BRITISH number one Anne Keothavong is preparing for a clash with reigning champion Venus Williams after scrapping her way to victory in her first round match at Wimbledon on Tuesday. The 24-year-old, from Hackney, bounced back from losin... Anne goes out at WimbledonHACKNEY s Anne Keothavong went out of the Wimbledon Ladies Championship today (Thursday) in the second round, beaten by three times champion and current holder Venus Williams of the USA, 7-5, 6-2. Anne, from Amhurst Road, Hackney, the British number one... Anne's Dutch gamble fails to pay dividendsANNE Keothavong can concentrate on getting ready for her first round match at Wimbledon next Monday, after suffering an early exit in the Ordina Open at Hertogenbosch, Holland The British number one opted to play in the tougher surroundings of the £88,000... What's On WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS...How To Lose Friends And Alienate People (15) Who else but Simon Pegg could get away with being arrogant, chauvinistic and downright cringeworthy – and still charm an audience?...... RIGHTEOUS BROTHERSRighteous Kill (15) FOR fans of American cinema over the last 40 years, there are three principal giants of the screen. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson all emerged around the same time – at the end of the 1960s and start of the 70s ...... BUNGLE IN THE JUNGLETropic Thunder (15) FROM the opening titles, you just know that Tropic Thunder is going to napalm the rest of this year s comedy films out of the water and send them home in a body-bag.... NO SMOKE, NO FIREPineapple Express (15) STONER movies are often a bit of a minefield. Pathetic losers off their heads on weed getting into wacky scrape after wacky scrape and still managing to come out smelling of roses is a popular theme for Hollywood s money men...... GUY FORKS UP ANOTHER GUNPOWDER PLOTRocknrolla (15) IT S got a gang of four friends on the periphery of the east London underworld. There s a big-shot gangster to whom they owe money...... BROTHERS BEYONDStep Brothers (15) THERE S a certain type of comedy film that has flourished in recent years. It s the comedy that appeals to the awkward teenage boy still trapped inside most grown men...... TO HELL AND BACKHellboy 2: The Golden Army (12A) A PROTAGONIST who s a big red demon? Of course, for those who are aware of Mike Mignola s Hellboy comics and Guillermo del Torro s track record of cult Spanish-language movie inventiveness...... CLONE JUSTICEStar Wars: The Clone Wars: (PG) Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not a film that can be compared to the cult George Lucas movies...... NOT SO YUMMY MUMMYTHE MUMMY: THE TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (12A) ANOTHER week yet another lazy sequel from a tired old franchise is cynically churned out by Hollywood s money men...... ABOMINABLE SNOWMENX Files: I Want To Believe (15) X-FILES fans far and wide – run and hide, blind yourselves, if necessary, and do all within your power to stay away from this abomination...I... JAMAICA RUNTHE story of one woman s escape from the trouble-torn Jamaica of the 1970s is to be told at the Hackney Empire Studio Theatre...... |