Royle Leaves Thursday, 11th May 2006 18:15
Manager Joe Royle has sensationally left the club by mutual consent. A statement from Town on Thursday evening confirmed rumours which had been circulating on the TWTD Message Board throughout the afternoon.
Chairman David Sheepshanks thanked Royle for his three-and-a-half years in charge at Portman Road: Joe and I have met today and agreed that this is the right moment to go our separate ways. The parting is entirely amicable. I would like to place on record our warm appreciation and thanks for the tremendous job that Joe has done at Ipswich during his tenure, managing the club initially through turbulent times and building a side that reached the play-offs in two out of the last three seasons.
Liam McGuinness, the new commercial manager at York City Football Club. YORK City Football Club has a new commercial manager. Liam McGuinness is responsible for maximising opportunities around the LNER Community Stadium and at the club, including ticketing, sales, hospitality, events and advertising. He previously worked with Newcastle Racecourse as head of racing sales after about 10 years at Championship side Middlesbrough FC in sales, sponsorship and event management. Liam said: I’m thrilled and over the moon to be back in football and to be given this opportunity. Pretty much my whole career has been in sport, specifically football with
A race against time to complete a massive and complex engineering project in Bicester has been completed on schedule. After three years of planning, teams from Oxfordshire County Council, Cherwell District Council and Network Rail fitted two new railway underpasses on the Chiltern main line during a 100-hour window over the Easter period. If the project had not met its deadline, the organisations would have had to wait another five to 10 years for the next opportunity to carry out the work, due to the heavy demands on the Network Rail calendar. The underbridges were inserted underneath the Marylebone/Aynho line north-west of Bicester between April 2-5, during the Easter bank holiday weekend.
Warning for railway passengers ahead of busy bank holiday weekend
Improvement work on the lines set to cause disruption
It could be a busy bank holiday weekend on the trains
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Railway service users are being warned to carefully consider their routes after transport bosses say the bank holiday weekend is set to be a busy one.
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An old footbridge near Oakengates Station is being removed to make way for a new structure as part of an improvement scheme costing almost £1 million.
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The footbridge near Oakengates Station
The bridge linking Station Fields and Hancocks Drive was due to be dismantled overnight on Sunday.
Network Rail s Central route director Dave Penney said: “Replacing the public footbridge at Oakengates will really transform the look and feel of the station and surrounding area.
“The old bridge has to be replaced, and the new improved bridge will help give passengers a warm welcome as they return to the rail network after the Covid-19 pandemic.”