FORMBY FC have announced a radical groundshare with non-League rivals Burscough – but the move will not be enough to secure them promotion to the North West Counties Premier Division.Read
ON SUNDAY, June 2 the Botanic Gardens bowling greens in Churchtown, Southport will have their busiest day of the season when the Botanic club again hosts Youth & Junior matches of the Federation of Crown Green Bowls. The local team of Ormskirk & West Lancashire will be hoping to build on the success they had in the last round of matches in Barrow-in-Furness early in May. They will compete against visiting teams from Rochdale and Furness.Read
JULES Goulding, 53, who trains at Formby Shotokan Karate Club, travelled to Chesterfield to take her first Dan black belt under Chief Instructor Andy Sherry (eighth Dan), Head of the Karate Union of Great Britain.Read
FRESH from their triumph in the Merseyside schools in November, the Formby High School Boys’ U13 team, consisting of Stefan Schober Thomson, Jack Gittins, Jackson Cobain and Matthew Brookfield, took part in the North West Schools qualifier in Blackburn.Read
BOTH joint leaders in Division One of the Southport and Formby Quiz League - Wings and Metros - had comfortable wins to set up a play-off, the third in four years, reflecting the close rivalry between the two teams.Read
A HIGHTOWN girl was in the medals at the first Association of Junior Independent Schools Indoor Athletics Championships at Robin Park Arena, Wigan.Read
MOST of the matches were close and two were won by a single point, suggesting that the handicaps are just about right. Receiving 10, Sacred Heart just got the better of Ainsdale Sands with a 33 - 32 win, with Derek Roberts 21 and Keith Wilkinson 11 scoring well for Sands.Read
LEADERS Scarisbrick Hotel have changed their venue and have changed their name to Sir Henry Segrave in memory of the man who broke the world land speed record on Birkdale beach in the 1920s.Read