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Teenage Ashington driver Stuart Middleton has signed with top Italian Team Bonaldi Motorsport to race in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship in Europe driving one of the team’s Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo cars.

The winter weather was the real winner in athletics at the weekend, with the snow severally impacting the race calendar, including the cancellation of the Druridge Bay and Alnwick Pastures parkruns.

Evergreen Morpeth veteran Walter Ryder made the long journey from his Scottish home in Wester Ross worth the many miles of travel at the weekend.

Three individual and two sets of team medals were secured by athletes from Morpeth Harriers, at the annual Northern Athletics Cross Country Championships, held at a breezy but relatively firm and dry Pontefract Park Racecourse, in Yorkshire, on Saturday.

Athletes from Morpeth Harriers achieved four team golds, two team silvers and one team bronze at the annual cross country Cathedral Relays held at Lord Lawson School, Birtley, on Sunday.

Gateshead Harrier Calum Johnson led the way to win the 2019 Morpeth New Year’s Day Road Race on Tuesday.

Six athletes from Morpeth Harriers & AC were in competitive action at the second meeting in the 2018/19 series of Indoor Standards competitions, organised by Gateshead Harriers, held at Gateshead College, on Thursday.

Leaden skies and a grey sea offered a forbidding welcome to the 184 runners who took part in the 59th running of the annual Blyth Sands Race on Sunday afternoon.

Morpeth athletes were prominent finishers at Saturday’s UK Cross Challenge meeting, held at Sefton Park in Liverpool.

The athletes from Morpeth Harriers were once again among the headline performers at the fourth Start Fitness North Eastern Harrier League fixture of the 2018/19 campaign, held at Aykley Heads, Durham City, on Saturday.

The 33rd running of the annual Leeds Abbey Dash saw over 8,000 athletes gathered in the centre of the city once again to pound the streets of the city of Leeds and, among them, inevitably, a good sprinkling of Morpeth vests.

Morpeth Harrier Rory Leonard has received a terrific boost in his first season as an U20 athlete, by being selected to run for Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the opening IAAF Cross-Country Permit competition, being held in Burgos, Spain, on Sunday, November 11.

Despite the horrendous overnight weather conditions in South Wales at the beginning of the weekend, the opening fixture of the 2018/19 UK Cross Challenge still went ahead as planned in Llandaff Fields, close to Cardiff, on Saturday.

Cross Country action got underway for 2018/19 on Saturday, when near record fields took part in the first Start Fitness North Eastern Harrier League of the season, at Wrekenton, Gateshead.

A quiet corner of Manchester certainly became very much alive on Sunday, when the diminutive frame of Dylan Davies brought Morpeth Harriers U15 Boys home to an excellent set of gold team medals in their 3 x 3.1k Relay, in the annual Northern Athletics Autumn Road Relay Championships.

Morpeth man Brian Kerr won an individual and team gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships which were held in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

Double Olympic Decathlon champion, Daley Thompson CBE, will be guest of honour at the Active Northumberland Kielder Marathon.

In a superb night of friendly, yet intensive competition, Morpeth Harriers retained their hold on the winner’s trophy at the annual North Eastern Counties Athletics Association Track Relays, held at Jarrow’s Monkton Stadium, last Wednesday.

Morpeth 1sts enjoyed a good eight-wicket home win over Bates Cottages 1sts in the Northumberland & Tyneside Cricket League at the weekend.