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Help for Heroes — Yorkshire Three Peaks During the Leave-out weekend, on what has become an annual CCF expedition to raise money for the Forces charities, a group of Malvern College pupils and staff set off to accomplish the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. The group set off at a strong pace and kept their spirits high by sharing songs and stories. As the day drew on, legs grew wearier and the pace slowed. By the time we had reached Ingleborough, the final and steepest peak, we had already been walking for nine hours. We finally reached camp in 11 hours and 25 minutes, within our target of 12 hours, to receive the best of rewards — a hot roast meal. Badges of achievement were presented to: Ben Chandler (No.5), Henry George (No.2), Rupert Harris (SH), Rory Hopkinson (No.2), Nathan King (No.5), William Kitching (No.2), Anna Llewellyn (No.6), Simon Macdonald (No.5), Wulstan Nixon (No.5), Alice
Paterson (No.4), Kavita Purohit (No.6), Harry Rees (No.5), Natalie Seager (No.3) and Amelia Wall (No.3). The funds raised will go to the Rifles
Casualties charities and to Help for Heroes (which hit the £100 million mark in June). Lt Simon Bradley
EIGHT8 Cricket Competition Malvern College held its EIGHT8 Cricket Competition for U/11 year olds at the end of May. This junior form of the TWENTY20 game is a very successful formula for youth cricket and has become a feature of the Summer Term at Malvern. The U/13 competition takes place here in June. Over 100 junior cricketers from ten schools played in coloured kit supplied by Ram Cricket. Packwood Haugh claimed the A J Murtagh Trophy and Birchfield won the Plate competition. Birchfield pupils Callum Lea and Arjan Uppal were awarded the individual batting and bowling awards respectively, with scores of 130 runs across the whole tournament, and 9 wickets for 48 runs. Mark Hardinges, Master i/c Cricket