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Hamilton Spectator
25-04-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Local trio named to national rugby team
Three young Uxbridge residents will be representing Canada on the international stage in June as members of the national men's Under-20 rugby team. Rowan Closs, Cole Harris and Andrew Neveu are all former members of the Uxbridge Secondary School Tigers and the Durham Lords rugby team at Durham College. Jim Closs, who coaches at the Brock rugby club and is Rowan's father, said the three were invited to trials in Vancouver in February and all were named to the Under-20 team. Prior to that, Rowan and Cole attended a development academy called Pacific Pride in Victoria, and were also members of Canada's Under-18 squad. 'There's never been a time when three guys from the same town were on the same team at the same time,' Closs said. He noted that Uxbridge's Amber Edgerton has made the women's national team, being named to the women's Under-20 squad. Playing together for the USS Tigers and Brock Rugby Club in Sunderland since 2019, the three won multiple LOSSA championships and earned silver and bronze finishes at OFSAA. With the Durham College Lords, they won OCAA bronze. They also won a National U-19 Championship with Ontario in 2024. Closs said the three will attend training camp on Vancouver Island from May 11-21, and then head for Fiji on May 22 for the Oceania rugby tournament in June, where they will face such powerhouses as Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Edgerton and the women's team will be headed to Ireland. Noting that the trip will be expensive (Closs figured it will cost each player at least $5,000 for the Fiji trip) Closs has started a GoFundMe fundraiser for the players. He said Monday that the fund has raised over $9,000 so far. On Tuesday, the players met with Mayor Dave Barton, who presented them with a $1,000 donation from the Mayor's Golf Fund. Those interested in helping can visit
BBC News
10-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
East Durham College housing plans expected to be refused
Plans by a college to build 54 homes on a disused playing field are expected to be Durham College wants to build the homes on an old running track at Willerby Drive in Peterlee, but a planning officer from Durham County Council has recommended the projected be refused Spurgeon pointed out a number of problems with the scheme and said it would result in a loss of playing fields in the Easington MP Grahame Morris has supported the application because it would bring the land back into use. He said the plans would "repurpose a neglected area and generate revenues to enable the college to continue to deliver high-quality academic and sports provision, as well as much-needed housing". 'Poor design' The site was last used as a playing field in 2019, according to the Local Democracy Reporting its planning statement the college said the field was overgrown and it had no "surplus funds or intention" to reuse it as a playing his recommendation to the council, Mr Spurgeon said the proposed development would lead to the loss of about two hectares (7.4 acres) of playing fields and the application did not show a surplus of such facilities in the England objected to the plans for the same Spurgeon said the development was of a "poor design" when assessed against the council's County Durham Plan Building for Life Supplementary Planning said it "would not be possible for an appropriate layout for something numerically close to 54 dwellings" to be built while adhering to the plans would also require prominent trees to be cut down and the development would cause significant harm to biodiversity in the area, Mr Spurgeon said.
