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BBC News
19-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Boy from Sandwich who taught himself golf chases next world title
A 10-year-old junior golf champion from Kent is targeting another world title this weekend - but has still never had a Gibbons, from Sandwich, started swinging a golf club at the age of two and is now one of the best young talents in the 2023, he won the under-seven's World Junior Golf Championships in Portugal and earlier this year won the Daily Mail World Junior Golf Championships in to win the Under Armour World Championships in Florida this weekend, Elijah said: "I honestly don't think I need coaching. I just stick to my swing and see what happens." Elijah began practicing golf in his parents garden but now practices regularly at Prince Golf Club in mum, Charlotte Gibbons, said: "He was in nappies,. He loved his practice club. He wouldn't go to bed, he'd still want to be out there." 'Jumping in lakes' Sam Gibbons, Elijah's dad, then took him to his first competition, saying: "He wanted to play in competitions at the age of five, he joined the British junior tour, he's now a two time world champion."Elijah looks up to stars like Tiger Woods, saying: "I dream about winning the Masters and dream about facing Tiger in the final, then I wake up and I realise it didn't happen."But maybe one day, it should happen."The family have a motorhome they use to travel around the world with added: "He loves golf, but we want him to see the world too, jumping in lakes, riding his bike. He loves playing golf, but I don't want it to become something he has to do."Once the Under Armour World Championships are complete, Elijah will play in the US Kids World Championships.
BBC News
09-07-2025
- BBC News
Kent Police launches anti-social behaviour pilot in Sandwich
A pilot scheme aimed at preventing anti-social behaviour has been launched by police in Sandwich ahead of a possible roll-out across East scheme, called Love Your Community, was the idea of PC Joel Ruddock who works within the child centred policing team in the Dover District Community Safety five-day project will see four schools take part in events such as litter picking, helping at a foodbank, organising community sports events and inviting police into the school Ruddock said the initiative was designed to "educate" young people on anti-social behaviour. 'Negative perception' Sandwich Infant and Sandwich Junior schools are taking part alongside Sir Roger Manwood's School and Sandwich Technology initiative has been supported by Dover District Commander Liz Cokayne- Delves, who said: "It's really important to get that engagement between schools and the community because there is a lot of confusion about the trouble children cause." PC Ruddock said it would "hopefully reduce crime figures and bring the community together to build better relationships".He added: "I think sometimes there's a negative perception of some young people and they are not always to blame." In recent weeks the issue of anti-social behaviour has reared its head in coastal parts of the county. Kent Police has issued dispersal orders - empowering officers to move people on from designated areas - for Herne Bay, Whitstable, Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs.A meeting to discuss the recent disorder held in Broadstairs was attended by more than 100 residents, East Thanet MP Polly Billington Sharples, who became head of Sandwich Technology School in January, said: "I've been at a school before where increasing the community footprint has improved behaviour both in and out of school dramatically. "This work with the community will encourage a deeper respect for each other and the children will just care more."
Chicago Tribune
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Heidi Stevens: On long list of things being cut, art may seem inconsequential. It's not
In the past few months I've traveled to an extravagant, loveless wedding on the coast of Rhode Island, a midsize prep school outside Boston, a long, awful, gorgeous goodbye between two soulmates inside Graceful Shepherd Hospice, a retirement community in Maine, a beach-town rental on Cape Cod and a whole bunch of spots in Los Angeles, both gritty and glamorous. Not in person, obviously. All of my actual travel revolves, happily, gratefully, around my son's lacrosse team and my daughter's college schedule. My mind, on the other hand, travels (also happily, gratefully) in books. 'The Wedding People' by Alison Espach; 'Prep' by Curtis Sittenfeld (an oldie I was late to); 'We All Want Impossible Things' by Catherine Newman (one of the best books I've ever read); 'Tell Me Everything' by Elizabeth Strout; 'Sandwich' also by Catherine Newman; and 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' by Taylor Jenkins Reid, most recently. Stories are magic. They introduce me to new people and let me live in their heads and learn from their heartbreak and humor and terrible decisions and wisdom and fears and triumphs. Stories make my world bigger. They complicate easy narratives. They shrink my blind spots. They remind me to hope. 'The Sum of Us' by Heather McGhee taught me more about the United States than a lifetime of history classes. 'Mercy Street' by Jennifer Haigh gave me an entirely new lens through which to view reproductive rights. I think about 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers at least once a week. Books do that. Art does that. And it is, like so many things that sustain us, under attack right now. Hundreds of arts groups across the country received notice that their National Endowment for the Arts grants were being withdrawn or terminated in May, the same day President Donald Trump called for eliminating the NEA altogether, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Library and Museum Services. It would be tempting to write this off as a minor outrage in the grand scheme of outrages unfolding right now. The budget bill that passed Thursday slashes Medicaid, Affordable Care Act and rural hospital funding, earmarks $45 billion for migrant detention facility beds, rolls back clean energy projects and adds at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. Among other things. But if the first six months of this administration have taught us anything, it's that we can be appalled by more than one thing simultaneously. And a society that doesn't cultivate and support and sustain art is an appalling thought. Art matters. It connects us. It softens us. It moves us. 'Everyone — no matter their belief system or politics — deserves art,' Anne Helen Peterson wrote in her July 2 newsletter. 'You deserve art you love and you deserve art that pisses you off and you deserve art that makes you think. 'We also deserve art,' she continued, 'that's not subject to the whims of capitalism or individual taste; if we only fund art that's pleasing or inoffensive, we end up with a bleak art world composed of Justin Timberlake's 'Can't Stop the Feeling' from the 'Trolls' soundtrack on repeat forever.' Which would not only be deeply unpleasant, it would stunt our growth. Rebecca Makkai, author of the phenomenal, Pulitzer Prize finalist 'The Great Believers,' wrote a stirring defense of the arts on the same day as the $40 million, taxpayer funded military parade in Washington, D.C. It was headlined, 'Your Kid's Art Class is Paying for This Parade.' 'It's not as if there's a trail of crumbs straight from the NEA cuts to this parade,' Makkai wrote. 'But when your priority is to defund the things that give people a voice and to fund the things that scare people into silence, it's hard not to see them as two sides of one coin.' Precisely. Makkai, as it happens, is one of the authors whose name appeared on an AI-generated summer reading list published in a handful of major newspapers recently. The list, which had no byline, recommended 15 new titles, only five of which actually exist. My book- and newspaper-loving heart shattered a little bit that day. There's an awful lot working against our humanity right now. But there are so many reasons to defend it. There are so many reasons not to give in — to cruelty, to fear, to lazy thinking, to shortcuts that take us to dark places. Art narrates those reasons. Art illuminates those reasons. Art creates empathy. And it's hard to think of a more precious, endangered resource than empathy right now.
BBC News
23-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
National Armed Forces Week launched in Sandwich in Kent
National Armed Forces Week was launched in Kent on Monday with the raising of the flag and prayers for veterans and currently serving military 60 people gathered outside the Guildhall in Sandwich to hear Father Sebastian Hamilton, rector of St Clements Church, lead a short event was organised by Dover District Council, which adopted the Armed Forces Covenant to support former service personnel in their rehabilitation and in the Glen Craddock, who promotes the Armed Forces Covenant at Southeastern Railway, said: "We offer all veterans who apply for a job an interview so that they can sell themselves and are not just one in a pile of emails." He added: "When you sign that line you don't know what is coming next and that's where we are at this moment. It's a very volatile time."Armed Forces Week is an annual event which celebrates the people who serve, or who have served, their Christopher Russell was commandant of The Duke Of York's Royal Military School in said: "We are living in the most difficult times I have ever seen and if I was still serving I would hope that the population at large would see how important it was to support the armed services." There will be an Armed Forces Week parade in Ramsgate on Saturday, which starts at the Sailors' Church in Military Road at 10:40 BST.
Washington Post
21-06-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Ethan Fang birdies final hole to become first American in 18 years to win British Amateur
SANDWICH, England — Oklahoma State junior Ethan Fang held off a late charge Saturday with a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 1-up victory over Gavin Tiernan of Ireland, becoming the first American in 18 years to win the British Amateur. The match at Royal St. George's was all square through 31 holes when Fang built a 2-up lead, Tiernan won the next two holes with big putts, and Fang won it on the 36th hole with an approach shot just 5 feet left of the hole.
