Local sport headlines
Sterling waits on knee injury
ROCESTER striker Chris Sterling could face a lengthy spell on the sidelines with a knee injury. The 26-year-old front-runner who top scored for the Romans with 28 goals in 48 appearances this season
Evans grabs Games bronze despite crash
UTTOXETER cyclist Joe Evans was left to rue what might have been after a slip on the final bend saw him having to settle for the bronze medal at the Sainsbury's School Games. The 15-year-old Thomas
Spasic hits key half-century in Checkley win
A SUPERB first half-century for the club from Australian Danny Spasic fired Checkley to a third win of the season in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire Premier Division. The 39-year-old from
Gough scores at the double to deny Town
JORDI Gough wrecked Uttoxeter Town's hopes of adding the President's Cup to the Burton Sunday League championship crown. Gough scored twice in the final at Gresley's
Uttoxeter battle to get first win of the season
UTTOXETER squeezed past Stanton Elks to get their Derbyshire County League Division Six South season up and running. The Town side won their first match of 2012 at the fourth time of asking after two
Peaty nets a hat-trick of Youth Championship golds
A TEENAGE swimming star from Uttoxeter has warmed up for the European Junior Championships by collecting a hat-trick of gold medals closer to home. Adam Peaty, of Byrds Lane, won the 50metres, 100m
Check-mate as bowlers shine
CHECKLEY maintained their 100 per cent away record in the North Staffs and South Cheshire League by sensationally bowling out Premier Division rivals Burslem for just 22. Paceman Richard Cooper (6-14)
National Sport Headlines
Sacked Dalglish backs owners
Sacked Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has given his backing to owners Fenway Sports Group.
Strauss 'not losing taste for captaincy'
Andrew Strauss insists he is "not even close" to thinking he has had enough of the England captaincy, despite his long and vain search for his 20th Test century.
Suarez row pressure worst for Evra
Patrice Evra has admitted the pressure he was under prior to his non-handshake with Luis Suarez was the greatest he had ever felt in his life.
National News
Parents attack 'narrow' inquest '
The grieving parents of a baby boy killed by a falling lamppost have accused a coroner's court of failing to provide answers about their son's death.
Prosecution over runaway train
London Underground is to be prosecuted by the rail regulator over a runaway engineering train, it has been disclosed.
Appeal man bailed in dramatic twist
A young man who has always pleaded his innocence over a 2004 murder has enjoyed his first taste of freedom in more than seven years after a dramatic twist in his case at the Court of Appeal.
Figures show fall in railway crimes
Crime on Britain's railways has fallen for the eighth successive year, according to statistics.
