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BBC News
20-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Maunder to join Coventry at end of season
Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Sam Maunder will be released by the club following the conclusion of the 2024-25 Premiership seasonThe 25-year-old has spent the majority of the current campaign on loan with Championship side Coventry and will now join the club on a permanent played 62 matches for Exeter, starting in 34 of them and scoring two Premiership tries during that time. The Chiefs academy graduate moves to Butts Park Arena where he has played 12 games this season. "I would like to thank Tony Rowe [CEO and chairman] and Rob Baxter [director of rugby] for giving me the opportunity to play for my boyhood club," Maunder said. "It has meant the world to me."It's a special group of players and staff at Chiefs and I have made lifelong friends. I'm going to miss being part of that dressing room."I wish everyone the very best and I'm going to be cheering them on from the Midlands. Thank you for making this place feel like home for six years."
BBC News
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Somerset in Pictures: Blue skies, cows and Crufts
It was a week to celebrate the beauty of Somerset, from tender moments with highland cows at sunrise to blue skies over Minehead beach. Meanwhile, cricketer Tom Lammonby and rugby player Sam Maunder launched their new 9|15 café, adding to the county's growing list of exciting ventures. And a photographer took his camera high up on the Mendips to capture a special celestial sight. Horse racing: Trainer Paul Nicholls paraded the racing horses Bravemansgame (left) and Kandoo Kid during a visit to Paul Nicholls' yard at Manor Farm Stables in Ditcheat. Paw-fect partnership: A woman who started going to dog shows just three months ago has qualified for Crufts. Susie Curteis-Lateo from Wells qualified for the show with her standard long-haired dachshund Swansford Priyankadora, which she started training half a year ago. Congratulations! Blue skies: It was a warmer week for Somerset and familiar sites such as Minehead beach (above) were bathed in sunshine and blue skies , which were not dampened by a flurry of rain midweek that caused some flooding. New venture: Professional athletes Tom Lammonby, who plays for Somerset County Cricket Club, and Sam Maunder, who plays for Exeter Chiefs, have opened a new eatery, 9|15 café. Many of Tom's fellow cricketers attended the launch in support of their teammate, including Lewis Gregory, the Somerset captain, and bowler Kasey Aldridge. Dragon's Lair: The play park at the Bishop's Palace in Wells could be extended. It would include a water sculpture, a living canopy of plants and babbling boulders, expelling small jets of water into a shallow paddling pool.
