News in Frome

Well done to Archie Pearn, Toby Cassidy, Alfie Newbery, Oscar Stickley and Adam Hancock .

The Frome RFC Seniors celebrated the end of the season with their annual Awards Dinner to a packed out room of players, supports and volunteers.

Players of the year, the player the other players voted for and most improved, all the awards for the Frome RFC youngsters.

A wrap for Frome Under 16s rugby stars with strength, resilience and good humour the players gave the team one hundred per cent.

Frome Under 10s and Under 9s show the kind of skills that if they keep playing will ensure that Frome RFC will be good for the future.

A jam packed weekend of Frome RFC rugby - win or lose the team management say they could not be prouder of how all the squads performed.

Flying high the Frome squad came back with top marks - Evolution club is so proud of its team, in particular the new comers who performed so well. .

A brilliant morning of rugby, at Wells for the Frome U10's. Great performances from the whole squad - wonderful attacking rugby from Frome.

Gracie Barra Frome (GB Frome), a local Brazilian jiu-jitsu team, achieved their best competition performance at the inaugural Wiltshire Brazilian jiu-jitsu Championship Open. Children & adult competitors filled Grange Leisure Centre, Swindon, over the weekend and fought in hundreds of bouts for a place on the podium in the regional open.

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a grappling form of martial arts that incorporates throws, takedowns, controlling pins & holds, along with submissions. Athletes are awarded points for advancing positional advantage over their opponents, or can win outright by preforming joint locks or chokeholds to achieve a submission.

An investment lobby charity ShareAction has today (March 28) appealed to Sainsbury's supermarket to be the first supermarket in the UK to pay the Living Wage.

They have put a resolution to the supermarket, which is backed by 10 institutional investors and over 100 individuals, to co-file a Living Wage pledge.