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Higginbottom relishing push for first-team spot

The 23-year-old, who is on a summer incremental contract for 2014 at The 3a County Ground, made four first-class appearances for Derbyshire during their ill-fated LV= County Championship Division One campaign last year.

And Higginbottom hopes the experience gained from his performances against New Zealand, Sussex, Middlesex and Surrey during which he claimed a total of ten wickets, will put him in good stead for the new season.“

It was good to get an opportunity,” he said, reflecting on the past...
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A feast of golf in 1,000 courses

A rich golfing pedigree has been the driving force behind a High Peak man’s passion for the sport.

So much so that earlier this year, John Armitt, from Buxton, celebrated playing his 1,000th different golf course.

John began playing golf as a junior and his first golf subscription in 1945 cost five shilling. That was at Buxton and High Peak Golf Club, where he is a life member.

And during a long and varied golfing career spanning a remarkable eight decades, the 77-year-old has gone on to play
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Paralympic star's golden success Storey

Sporting superstar Sarah Storey has paid a golden tribute to her supporters who have helped the Disley cyclist take her place in Paralympic history.

Sarah stormed to gold in four events at this summer’s Paralympic Games in London to overtake former wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as Britain’s most decorated female Paralympian.

The 34-year-old swimmer-turned-cyclist entered the record books after victory in the road race, adding to her golds in the road time trial, and in the velo
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Paralympian with the world at his wheels

Paralympic cycling hero Anthony Kappes is considering the future now that he has the world at his wheels.

The Chapel-en-le-Frith-born sportsman told the Advertiser that his next decision is the exciting prospect of being among the first Paralympic track cyclists ever to take part in a Commonwealth Games - and what to do about Rio in four years’ time.

In a wide-ranging interview, Kappes talks about the “emotional rollercoaster” of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and the thrill of winning go
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Chapel-born cyclist storms to third Paralympic career gold

Chapel-en-le-Frith-born cyclist Anthony Kappes struck gold for the third time in his Paralympic career by successfully defending his tandem sprint title.

Kappes and his sighted pilot Craig Maclean beat ParalympicGB team-mates Neil Fachie and Disley’s Barney Storey in a thrilling climax to the men’s individual B sprint - for riders with a visual impairment - at the London velodome on Sunday.

Former Chapel High School pupil Kappes, who is registered partially blind after being struck down
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Whaley Bridge gymnast “on top of the world” after Olympic experience

Proud Whaley Bridge gymnast Jennifer Pinches is “on top of the world” after achieving her life’s goal of representing Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics.

Pinches, making her debut on sport’s biggest stage, was a member of the Team GB squad which finished sixth in Tuesday’s final of the artistic gymnastics team competition - their best post-war performance at the Games.

The 18-year-old put in a truly gutsy performance at London’s North Greenwich Arena, recovering from a fall on the beam
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McIntosh: cup win is just reward after tough season

Buxton Football Club ended their rollercoaster season in style by defeating Derby County to lift the Derbyshire Senior Cup for the second time in four years.

A fabulous second-half strike by Mark Reed was all that separated the sides at a sodden B2net Stadium, with the Rams twice rattling the woodwork and having a goal chalked off for offside.

Wednesday night’s Derbyshire Cup decider was the Bucks’ third final appearance in four seasons, and saw the Silverlands side gain revenge for last season.
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England calls at the double

A mother and daughter from Buxton have scored a darts double for their country.

BDO ladies darts star Lorraine Farlam, of Dale Road, helped her fellow compatriots to victory in the recent Six Nations tournament in Blackpool.

Hot on the heels of this triumph, and following in her mother’s footsteps, Farlam’s daughter Josie Paterson has now also received her first call-up to the England Girls squad.

Mother-of-two Farlam, a semi-finalist at this year’s Lakeside World Professional Darts Champions
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New Bucks boss is ready for the challenge

Buxton FC's new manager Martin McIntosh wants to return a winning mentality to the club and secure its future in the Evo-Stik Premier Division.

Ex-Worksop Town boss McIntosh has been chosen as the man to turn around the fortunes of the struggling Bucks, who are currently five points adrift of safety in the Premier Division with 14 league games remaining - and who haven’t won at home in the league for over four months.

The Scotsman was appointed on Saturday and succeeds Scott Maxfield.
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Maxfield ‘surprised and disappointed’ at Buxton FC’s decision to search for new manager

PLAYER-MANAGER Scott Maxfield said he was “surprised and disappointed” by Buxton Football Club’s decision to look for a new boss.

Maxfield, and his assistant Chris Dolby, took charge at the Silverlands following the departure of John Reed and Clive Freeman in mid-November, but have been unable to turn around the club’s fortunes.

With 14 league games remaining, and the Bucks currently in 20th place in the table, five points adrift of safety, the board this week decided to make a last-ditch bid
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Wicket-keeper Chris handed big break

Wicketkeeper Chris Durham has taken a step closer to realising his ambition of playing first-class cricket after moving up the rankings in the wake of Derbyshire County Cricket Club captain Luke Sutton’s shock retirement.

With Tom Poynton set to become first-choice wicketkeeper at the County Ground following Sutton’s departure last week on health and personal grounds, rising star Durham, 19, from Chapel-en-le-Frith, is expected to get the nod to take-over the gloves for the second XI.
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Buxton FC’s young guns to take on the big guns

It'll be a baptism of fire for Buxton FC’s young guns on Tuesday evening (July 26) when the club’s newly re-formed under-19 side takes to the Silverlands pitch for the first time in a prestige friendly against last season’s FA Youth Cup finalists Sheffield United.

Aside from two outings in a pre-season tournament in Rossington, this will be the first chance for local football fans to catch a glimpse of the squad of 20 players - hailing from across the High Peak and Derbyshire - which will play
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Lorraine's darts of gold

Darts ace Lorraine Farlam has described her victory in the singles of the prestigious British Darts Organisation (BDO) Gold Cup as one of the biggest wins of her career.

England international Farlam swept aside the current world number one Deta Hedman in the semi-finals on her way to being crowned the 2011 ladies champion at the Lakeside Country Club, the home of world darts, earlier this month.

The 35-year-old beauty therapist successfully qualified to represent Cheshire at the competition in
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Busy times for Great Britain star

A Hope teenager is preparing to jet off to Canada to represent Great Britain at the first-ever women’s under-25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship.

Madeleine Thompson, of Castleton Road, will be part of the national squad heading to North America in July to compete in the inaugural competition, just weeks after helping GB Women claim their first-ever BT Paralympic World Cup gold in Manchester.

And the busy 16-year-old Lady Manners School pupil, who has been juggling training and competit
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Dickie Bird recalls when SNOW stopped play in Buxton

IT IS etched into cricket folklore. Derbyshire versus Lancashire, 1975. An unbelievable game which saw play halted by snow — in June!

Few remember the three-day match at The Park, between Derbyshire and Lancashire, for being one of the biggest defeats in County Championship history, instead for the unseasonal and unexpected influx of the dreaded white stuff.

And it’s one experience that certainly sticks in the mind of retired English international cricket umpire Harold Dennis Bird, MBE
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First league championship seals historic treble for Hitmen

Buxton Hitmen secured the National League Championship for the first time in their 16-year history on Sunday to complete a clean sweep of trophies.

Despite being written off by many sporting pundits, the Hitmen defeated the Newport Hornets 56-35 at Hi-Edge to lift their first league title, to go with the National League Knockout Cup and the National Trophy.

And afterwards, club chairman Jayne Moss said: “It is a phenomenal achievement, something that I think happens perhaps once in a lifetime.
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World stage is beckoning for ladies darts star

A ladies darts player from Buxton has set her sights on the world number one spot after winning the biggest competition of her career.

Making her debut at the Scottish Open last month, mother-of-two Lorraine Farlam came through ten matches to lift the coveted trophy at the Normandy Cosmopolitan Hotel in Glasgow.

Her performance at the British Darts Organisation (BDO) invitation event, which included victories over a former world number one and current Welsh number one, also saw her climb up the World Darts Federation (WDF) and BDO Grand Prix ranking systems.
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Ellie sets her sights on the Winter Olympics

A Tideswell skier is close to fulfilling a lifetime ambition of competing at the Winter Olympics next month.

Former Lady Manners School pupil Ellie Koyander, 18, is currently Britain's top freestyle mogul skier.

And after enjoying a successful 12 months, dad Peter believes his daughter is now "99.9 per cent" certain of securing a coveted TeamGB place at the Vancouver games, which get underway in 22 days times.

"I'm really proud of Ellie, but really pleased for her as well because she's worked incredibly hard to get this far," explained Peter, himself a former competitive mogul skier.