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Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin) won the Tour of Flanders for the second time on Sunday, one of the "monuments" of the cycling season.

Dutchman who finished second said he had resigned himself to a sprint for third place after being dropped on the Oude Kwaremont.

This is a picture of the old part of East Street, taken by Charles Wardell in 1960, looking north towards what is now the roundabout at Swan Court.…

Silent film star Francis X. Bushman of Ben Hur fame overcomes the posthumous oblivion that claims most of the stars who built early cinema.

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The event was held at St Lukes Hall in November. Chairman Rob Spittle commended six-year-old Laura Masson and her eight-year-old brother, Lee, of Strathmore Avenue, Walney, on their entries in the childrens section. They won a number of trophies. It was Lauras first competition, but not for Lee, who had been winning trophies since he was five. The pair both attended St Columbus Infant and Primary School and had their own little plot on their grandfathers allotment. They grew apple and...

Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach joined the meeting and spoke to the board about her latest work for the district.

“This is a really cool job” Bahrain Victorious’ Fred Wright on his first Grand Tour He wasn’t supposed to ride the Vuelta in his first year as a professional, but a lot of crazy things happened in 2020. Fred Wright speaks to Rouleur about his experiences as in the WorldTour so far. Words: Rachel Jary Photos: Alex Whitehead/CorVos/SWpix.com Being part of the World Tour has many perks. One of these is certainly having the luxury of professional chefs taking care of your teams nutrition ...

On Aug. 29, 1896, a day before his 15th birthday, Leo E. Welker  surprised the crowd at a Colfax 14-mile bicycle race by overcoming a five-minute handicap to win easily. The African American youth and his mother, Alice Battles, had recently moved from the North Dakota frontier boomtown of Devils Lake to Colfax in the same year that 100 Black coal miners arrived there from Oskaloosa.   The first report of a Black bike racer in Iowa had appeared two years earlier in the Sept. 14, 1894, issue of...

Kenora, ON, Canada / 89.5 The Lake Feb 24, 2021 7:55 AM A couple of members of the Kenora Rotary Club were on hand for a physically distant raising of the Rotary Flag at City Hall on Tuesday. The occasion? The Rotary Club says its celebrating 116 years of “doing good in the world”. Deb and Gord LeMaistre, Fred Wright and city representative Kelly Galbraith were on hand for the flag-raising ceremony. The Rotary Club kicked the week off on Monday by naming it’s Paul Harris award winners loc...