Thanks to Ed for looking after the show, I hope that you had an enjoyable Bank Holiday, the next one feels a long way away!!! Did you get Olympic Tickets? I didn’t 🙁 but I think there are a few people in the Sports section who might get automatic entry as they are 2012 hopefuls!!
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LOCAL SPORT
TRACK
TEEN track star Jessica Judd is continuing to re-write the record books. The 16-year-old, from Canvey, ran the fastest 1,500m by an under-17 woman in UK history on Saturday night. It means the Castle View school student now holds the UK all-time record for 3,000m, 1,500m and is second in the 800m list.
After a heavy race programme in recent weeks, Judd is likely to spend the next few weeks training before returning to action at the English Schools Championships in the first week of July.
The following week she will head to Lille, France, for the World Youth Championships.
CRICKET
Benfleet continued their unbeaten start to the season and ended Billericay’s 100 per cent record in the process.
The battle of the top two at the Toby Howe Ground saw the Benfleet visitors put into bat.
Benfleet finished on 171-9 from their 50 overs
Billericay were bowled out for 103 in 28.3 overs
SAILING
470 SAILOR Katrina Hughes is convinced that victory at next month’s Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta would confirm her spot at next year’s Olympics — and she has got every intention of seizing the opportunity with both hands.
MOVIE NEWS
TOP 10 BOX OFFICE
1. (-) The Hangover Part II – £10,409,017
2. (1) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – £4,757,411
3. (-) Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules – £1,476,720
4. (3) Thor – £335,103
5. (2) Fast & Furious 5 – £322,506
6. (7) Rio – £300,865
7. (4) Insidious – £208,313
8. (6) Hanna – £148,339
9. (5) Attack the Block – £142,919
10. (8) Water for Elephants – £129,143
Taken from Digital Spy
