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Tennis champion
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June 2009 Issue 20

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Eden serves up another

trophy to her collection
TENNIS starlet Eden Richardson looks like she will
have to get a bigger trophy cabinet!
Ten-year-old Eden won the North of England
tournament last month beating the top players from the
region.
Her mum Lesley said: “We’re really proud of her. She
works really hard on her game every day and this is what
she wants to do.
“It’s got to the stage now where we can’t even practice
with her because she is so good. We can’t even see the
balls as they whizz past us!”
In last month’s tournament she had to win in the hard
way. Eden beat the number one seed 6-4, 6-4 in the
semi final and then triumphed 6-3, 7-5 in the final
against the number two seed.
Eden, who attends Capenhurst Primary School, has
got a busy summer lined up with tournaments up
and down the country.
This month Eden takes part in the Spring
Nationals, which
she won last year,
and later in the
summer she will
enter the British
Nationals.
Eden, who lives
in Stanney Oaks,
currently trains at the Wrexham Tennis Academy
under the tutelage of former world ranked player
Matt Smith, from Heswall.
Her favourite surface is clay, which suits her strong
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SHELL Global Solutions based at Thornton provided almost 300 Whitby High
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put on hold.
Planners have asked the developers
to reduce the mass of the proposed
building on Berry Drive. Councillors also
wanted more information on traffic flows
and the commercialisation of services
offered to residents and the local
community
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and Councillors Kimberley Anderson,
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and Chester Council to meet the growing
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Volunteers take that Friday feeling to Africa

VOLUNTEERS from Ellesmere Port who recently worked on sports projects with
schools and community groups in Gambia held a celebration event last month to tell
sponsors and supporters of the work they did.
The volunteers are from the award-winning multi sports club Friday Night Fever,
made up of young people aged 11 to16 and run by volunteers aged 14 to 25.
Members take part in cheerleading, football, basketball, handball, dodgeball, badmin-
ton, trampolining and many other activities at Stanney Oaks Leisure Centre.
The club traveled to the Gambia earlier this year as part of the Gunjur Project 2009,
which allows young people from the UK and other counties to experience Gambian
life while volunteering and providing valuable opportunities to local communities and
schools.
The Ellesmere Port club raised over £8,400 to fund the project and the group worked
with local community groups, schools and nursery schools delivering multi-sport ses-
sions.
Cheshire West and Chester Council youth sport development officer, Michelle As-
pden, said: “Friday Night Fever is a dedicated, enthusiastic and exciting club, which
strives to challenge members and provide opportunities, not only in Ellesmere Port,
but abroad as well. 
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skills weekly at the Friday Night Fever club, which prepared them for their adventure.
“They worked with Kasa Kunda primary school, two community football academies,
Brikama basketball team, Gunjur upper basic school and Gunjur nursery school. 
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“The team took equipment and simple session plans with them that were left with
each group enabling the Gambian communities to carry on with the Friday Night Fever
approach.”

14 Friday Night Fever Volunteers delivering multi sport activity at Kassa Kunda
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