Sport

Five Wightlink-LCM Systems Cycle Race Team members went to Portsmouth on Wednesday for one of the Omega Circuit races. New member Matt Allsopp, Pete Moore – in his first race for three years, and Kev Foster lined up in the...

The final day of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week dawned with very light airs that necessitated a postponement before a west-south-westerly breeze climbing to 10 knots kicked in. Although shifty at first it continued to build through the day, peaking...

The penultimate day of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week was another warm day with plenty of sun and winds of around 8-15 knots that increased to 12-20 knots with occasional stronger gusts during the afternoon as thermal enhancement boosted the...

Helena Lucas, MBE, was awarded the Ladies Day Trophy at the Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week Ladies Day ceremony yesterday evening. Lucas was chosen as winner of this prestigious Ladies Day award from a strong line-up of nominees, but it...

Hebburn in Tyne & Wear once again hosted the National Fire Service Triathlon Championships on Sunday with Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service firefighter, Rob Merrifield, making the long trip north for the event. Recently back from The British National...

Competitors at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week enjoyed a warm day of racing in north-easterly winds that peaked at 14-15 knots, despite an unpromising forecast with the possibility that a weak sea breeze effect could cancel out the northerly gradient...

The fourth day of this year’s Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week saw a change in the weather, with blazing sun but a long postponement while competitors waited in vain for a sea breeze to fill in. An indefinite postponement was...

TV presenter and actress, Donna Air, visited Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week for the first time today (Tuesday), taking to the water with an Olympic sailing medalist.  Accompanied by Shirley Robertson, who has two Olympic golds behind her, 34-year-old Donna...

Wightlink-LCM Systems Cycle Race Team rider Jack Elton-Walters lined up with 16,500 other cyclists for the inaugural Ride London-Surrey 100 mile mass participation sportive on Sunday.  The day got off to a great start before any cycling even happened when...

The third day of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week dawned with unpromising weather forecasts – at one stage the Met Office’s Inshore Waters forecast predicted winds up to Force 9 – although in the event the strongest gusts were below...