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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.

Not for the first time, Morpeth Harrier Andrew Knight found the form of Stratford’s Lewis Byng just a little bit too much to come to terms with at the weekend.

A team of five children and their ponies from the Morpeth Hunt Pony Club have achieved their dream this year and qualified for the prestigious final of the Prince Philip Cup Mounted Games, held in October at the Horse of the Year Show at the NEC, Birmingham.

Morpeth 1sts beat local rivals Ponteland by 85 runs when the teams met in the Northumberland & Tyneside Cricket League on Saturday.

Under 15 75m hurdler Amy Lott of Morpeth Harriers competed in the Scottish Athletics Under 13/Under15/Under 20 Age Group Championships at Aberdeen Sports Village on Sunday.

Northumberland’s Laura Weightman says she can’t wait for Sunday’s 1500m European Championships final, after coming through her first-round race this morning.

Morpeth Harriers Senior Men and Women’s track and field squad completed their 2018 Northern Athletics Division 2E campaign, by finishing fourth in their final round match held at Darlington’s Eastbourne Sports Complex on Saturday.

Riders from Morpeth Riding for the Disabled Group, who are based at the Pegasus Centre in Tranwell, achieved great success at the RDA National Championships in Hartpury, Gloucester, earlier this month.