News in Ashby

The Ashby de la Zouch based Midland League team beat their local rivals at the NFU Ground in Lower Packington Road.

Linda, from Smisby near Ashby de la Zouch, has her sights set on a future gold medal as she has never won one.

Ashby Ivanhoe now face a Bank Holiday clash with Bilston on Monday after Saturday's well deserved win.

Ian Allen of Spa Harriers romped to victory in Sunday's Aldi Ashby 20 event which attracted over 1,350 entries - and was the 30th Anniversary 'take 2' event.

Allen completed the challenging course in an amazing time of 1:44:29 after leading throughout,

SHANE Warne, who tragically died last week, was rightly regarded as the Einstein of cricket.

When he famously said "Monty you have played one test match 33 times", many people, not least the media, thought he was spot on.

Ashby MP Andrew Bridgen has described the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a 'dark day' adding: 'We know where the blame lies'.

With representatives of all political parties condemning the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the MP for North West Leicestershire shared his views on social media today (Thursday).

The Chairman of Ashby Ivanhoe FC, Stuart Bonser, was recently asked to resign by the directors Jon Emmerson and Neil Johnson, having served over 10 years and seeing the club go from a local park team with two teams on Hood Park to one that has 19 teams from Under sevens to the Senior First Team and now playing on its own freehold ground on Lower Packington Road.

We caught up with Stuart and asked him to share his thoughts from the last 10 years and provide us with "what being a Chairman" of a non-league football club really means and to provide an oversight into the progress the club has made during his time as Chairman.

I'm running the London Marathon today (3rd October) in memory of my Aunty Christine Ball who sadly passed away earlier this year.

I'll be raising funds for Hospice UK who do great work in providing comfortable end of life care.

Entries open today (Monday, Nov 30) for the 'virtual' Aldi Ashby 20 race.

With the conventional event cancelled for the second year running due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers are staging it in a different way in 2021.

Ashby United Community Football Club are supporting this year's Rainbow Laces campaign which will take place from November 26-December 13 - with the focus day being Wednesday, December 9.

An Ashby United committee member has donated a pair of laces for every player and coach to wear in their boots during this period to help show their support for making sport a game for everyone - especially supporting those from an LGBT+ background.