The Andrew Simpson Sailing Centre (ASSC) and The Official Test Centre (OTC) are coming together to deliver a Professional Instructor Training course at The Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA). The eventual aim of the course is to create multi qualified instructors, who will be ready to step...
Osprey Leisure Centre on Portland recently provided training facilities to a team of dedicated athletes in preparation for their Race to the Sun. The local Weymouth athletes from the Sandsfoot Cafe Racers(SCR) took part in the very popular Majorca 70.3 half ironman distance recently. Accompanied by family and friends...
Weymouth’s excellent reputation for hosting great sports events continues in 2015 with the announcement of the Sports and Well-Being Festival, from 11 July to 26 July. Following a successful bid to the 'Inspired by 2012' Health and Well-being Legacy Fund, organisers Weymouth & Portland Borough Council, Dorset County Council and Active Dorset are...
Weymouth marched through to the third qualifying round of the FA Cup last Saturday after a second win in 5 days over Bideford, this time 4-1 at the Bob Lucas Stadium. Just like on the previous Tuesday night in the league game in North Devon, it was Bideford who...
It wouldn't be a normal season for Weymouth Football Club if there wasn't some sort of boardroom fallout overshadowing matters on the field at some point. It was all going too smoothly. Going into last Saturday we were third in the table with just one defeat all season, and...
Weymouth parkrun will be celebrating their one year anniversary on Saturday 30th August, with members lacing up for an early morning 5km run or jog around the Lodmoor Country Park and all for free. Parkrun is the brainchild of Paul Sinton-Hewitt who held the first ever event at Bushy...
Since 1938, golfing members of The Society of Dorset Men have competed annually for the Angus Hambro Cup. This year the competition was won by Richard Harris, the first time he has entered the contest. The silver cup will not move far as last year’s winner was Tom Lane...
The Old Hardyeans XI yet again won the annual cricket match against a Thomas Hardye School XI, this year by only ten runs. At the conclusion of the fixture, Old Hardyeans President Peter Foster presented the new Colin Lucas Cup to old boys’ skipper Tony Foot, commenting on the...
Residents and visitors will be able to enjoy a great festival of sport this summer. Weymouth & Portland Borough Council and partners will be hosting the 2014 Dorset Festival of Sports to mark the second anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sailing events in the borough....
Councillors at Weymouth & Portland Borough Council’s Management Committee have approved a sports facilities masterplan for Weymouth and Portland. The plan looks at how council owned sports facilities will be run and maintained in the future with a focus on handing even more facilities to community groups. ...
