Paralympics
29 Jul 2021
The great poet Rudyard Kipling would be proud of former Army Captain Nick Beighton, from Shrewsbury.
The double-amputee has certainly learned to “meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same …”
Having fought back from a life-changing injury in 2009 to appear at the Paralympics of 2012 and 2016, canoeist Beighton, 39, is phlegmatic about narrowly missing out on...
20 Nov 2015
She has gained a podium place in the last two Paralympics and is in training to achieve the feat again in Rio next year - but Mel Clarke has taken time out of her busy schedule to inspire students at a north Shropshire school.
The paralympic archer spent a day telling pupils at Thomas Adams School in Wem just how to make the most of themselves.
The international athlete, who has won National,...
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