A Northampton road was closed by police after a crash involving three cars.
The emergency services were called out to Gladstone Road, Spencer, Northampton shortly before 12.30pm on Thursday following reports of a collision involving three vehicles.
Police temporarily closed the road to allow for the vehicles to be recovered. The road was reopened shorlty after 2.30pm.
PC Dave Lee of the Northants Road Policing Unit said there were no serious injuries as a result of the crash.
Saints will start their first campaign in the European Rugby Champions Cup with a mouthwatering meeting with Racing Metro in Paris on October 18.
It is a clash between the two fancied teams in Pool 5, with Jim Mallinder’s men desperate to get off to a flyer in France this season having lost at Castres in the opening round of Heineken Cup games last year.
Saints were eliminated at the pool stages on that occasion, dropping into the Amlin Challenge Cup, which they went on to win.
But they have high hopes of progressing in the main competition this year, after being handed a draw which also includes Ospreys and Treviso.
Saints will host Ospreys in the second round of games on October 25, with a double-header against Treviso spread over the first two weekends of December. The Italian outfit host the first game before heading to Franklin’s Gardens a week later.
Saints then go to Swansea to face Ospreys in January, as they did last season, when they completed the double over the Welshmen.
They conclude their pool stage endeavours with a home game against Racing, who boast former Northampton players Brian Mujati and Juandre Kruger, on the weekend of January 23.
Exact kick-off times, dates and television coverage are still to be confirmed for rounds three to six.
Saints’ European Rugby Champions Cup fixtures:
Saturday, October 18: Racing Metro 92 (a) (6.15pm on Sky Sports)
Saturday, October 25: Ospreys (h) (5.15pm on Sky Sports)
December 5/6/7: Treviso (a)
December 12/13/14: Treviso (h)
January 16/17/18: Ospreys (a)
January 23/24/25: Racing Metro (h)
Jim Mallinder knows Saints must get off to a slick start when they travel to face Racing Metro in the first round of European Rugby Champions Cup games.
Northampton head to the Stade Yves du Manoir on October 18 (kick-off 6.15pm) and will be desperate to avoid a repeat of what happened in round one of last season’s Heineken Cup.
On that occasion, Saints failed to turn possession into points as they fell to a 19-13 defeat at Racing’s Top 14 rivals Castres.
That left Mallinder’s men with a mountain to climb as Leinster beat Ospreys in the first round of pool matches and the pressure was cranked up.
Saints were unable to progress, slipping into the Amlin Challenge Cup as one of the best runners-up, and they eventually went on to win that competition.
But they will expect to progress in the Champions Cup this year, with Ospreys and Treviso also in Pool 5, and Mallinder recognises the importance of a fast start.
“Starting our European Rugby Champions Cup campaign in France is both exciting and challenging,” said the Saints director of rugby.
“Racing Metro is well known as one of the most ambitious clubs in the competition and their squad is packed full of internationals and British & Irish Lions.
“It is an important start for us, and hopefully as many Saints supporters as possible will be there to get behind the team in our first competitive match in Paris.
“The game the following week against the Ospreys will be just as important.
“Winning your home games is crucial if you want to progress into the quarter finals, and we know from our two games against them last season that the Ospreys will be tough opponents.”
Saints’ European Rugby Champions Cup fixtures:
Saturday, October 18: Racing Metro 92 (a) (6.15pm on Sky Sports)
Saturday, October 25: Ospreys (h) (5.15pm on Sky Sports)
December 5/6/7: Treviso (a)
December 12/13/14: Treviso (h)
January 16/17/18: Ospreys (a)
January 23/24/25: Racing Metro (h)
The hard work paid off for A-level maths students at Thomas Becket Catholic School in Northampton - with 80 per cent claiming an A or B grade in today’s results.
Figures released by the school this afternoon show that A to E pass grades in at least three subjects has improved by ten per cent from 83 per cent to 93.3 per cent.
A spokesperson for the school said improvements were also made in sciences and in English.
Students who did particularly well were Dulip Ekanayake, who achieved an A, two Bs and a C; and Alex Gibson, who got an A, two Bs and a C.
A spokesperson for the school said: “The smiles on the faces of our students said it all this morning and I am delighted for them and all the hard work they put in to achieve these sets of results.”
Pictured are Dulip Ekanayake and Klaudia Maraczak.
The Rugby & Northampton AC senior team travelled to Stoke on Saturday for the final match of the season, knowing they were one of four clubs who could win the league but also one of four clubs who could be relegated.
The week started badly with the news that top sprinter Emma Wilshire was seriously ill in hospital in Portugal, while later in the week, a number of injuries to hurdlers further depleted the team.
In the event, it proved to be another close match with three clubs being separated by just three points, with R&N taking fourth place on the day and finishing a creditable third overall.
This was probably the best performance by the club in this league and reflects both improving standards and a greater depth of talent in most events.
It also ensured a third consecutive season in the top flight and, with a lot of athletes still improving, next season should see them return even stronger.
On the day the club had to dig deep, using athletes aged from 15 to over 65 to ensure the best possible performance.
From the start of the meeting it was clear that Birchfield had brought a strong team and were looking to retain their title and after a slow start Notts were also very strong and looking to retain their place in the top flight.
BRAT were short of their best team and struggled all day, leaving Wolves, Stoke & R&N to fight for the mid-table positions.
They continually swapped places as the afternoon went on with the results of the 4 x 400 relay and the final field event, the discus, proving critical to the final result.
In such a strong fixture, A string victories were hard to come by and the club secured just one from the peerless Ellena Ruddock in the 100m.
That also became a double with Sophie Riley winning the B race, one of only four B string victories.
For both men and ladies there were a string of fine second places that kept the club in contention all day.
In the Men’s team these came through Craig Murch (hammer and shot), Ross Allen (400m), Jacob Allen (1500m), Rob Gardner (steeplechase), Charlie Barker (high jump), John Moreland (discus) and Kevin Murch (javelin), whilst for the ladies it was Ellie Broome (long jump), Sophie Riley (200m), Rosanna Andrews (3000m), Megan Exley (javelin) & the 4x100m relay.
The other B string victories came from Chris Lamb in the steeplechase plus John Moreland in the shot and Craig Murch in the discus, with the throws once again proving the foundation of the team’s success.
Moreland, along with Angela Copson, will now be heading to Turkey for the European Masters Championships where both hope to claim medals.
There were also vital third-places for team stalwarts Ian Gidley (pole vault), Clinton Osaba-George (100m), Jacob Allen (800m), George Goodwin (3,000m), Mel Wood (800m) and Emily Waugh (1500m) in hard-fought races.
In addition to this there were also a string of personal bests for younger members of the team, Lucy Cousins (hammer), Tia Clues (javelin), Natalie Goddard (400m) and Megan Exley (triple jump).
Birchfield’s strength was decisive and they were champions but in the closest league which anybody can remember there was less than 150 points between the first and last teams across four matches, so R&N know that if they consistently field their best team in each match and improve in some key areas they are capable of winning this league in the future.
Darren Carter, Chris Hackett and Emile Sinclair have all been declared fit for the Cobblers’ trip to York City on Saturday (3pm kick-off).
Hackett, who had a sore Achilles, and Carter, who had a minor hamstring strain, both missed the midweek game at Wolverhampton Wanderers while Sinclair has been unavailable for the first week of the campaign with a groin injury.
Their return presents manager Chris Wilder with several selection dilemmas because the team won without them at Wolves, although they will face a very different type of threat at Bootham Crescent.
Kelvin Langmead (Achilles), Lewis Hornby (tendonitis) and Connor Roberts (groin) remain on the missing list.
York will be without three of their main strikers, with last season’s top scorer Wes Fletcher (knee) joined in the treatment room by Josh Carson (cruciate ligament) and former Cobblers loanee Ryan Jarvis (ankle), who scored the winner in the game between the teams last season.
Jake Hyde is expected to shake off a calf injury in time to play up front, while John McCombe - whose challenge broke Alex Nicholls’ leg at Sixfields in October 2012 - will line up at centre-back.
The headteacher of Quinton House School in Upton has praised the achievement of his A-level pupils.
The school celebrated another set of strong results with 100 per cent overall pass rate.
Head Boy Alastair Curtis scored three A* grades in English literature, geography and history and plans to study English literature at University College, London.
Li Gang Chen achieved four A*/A grades in subjects including mathematics, further mathematics and art. He will go on to study architecture at Edinburgh University later this year.
Top scoring subjects overall were chemistry and history, closely followed by art, mathematics and further mathematics.
Headmaster Benjamin Slade said: “We are all extremely proud of our A-level students as they have worked very hard. The results are directly attributable not only to the hard work, dedication and perseverance of the students themselves, but also to the quality of teaching delivered at Quinton House.
“We are delighted with the students’ achievements. The students have deservedly proved themselves in these examinations and we are pleased to send them off to study at top universities across Britain. We wish all the students every success in the challenges they face as they progress to the next phase of their studies.”
Alex King believes Saints’ pre-season programme will provide the perfect mix of challenges as they bid to hit the ground running in the Aviva Premiership in September.
Northampton will play four games in the build-up to the league curtain-raiser against Gloucester at Franklin’s Gardens on September 5.
First up, is Saturday’s clash with Championship team Rotherham Titans at the Gardens, with Leinster and Moseley both arriving a week later.
The pre-season campaign ends with a trip to Newport-Gwent Dragons, and King is relishing the start of the match action.
“We’re looking forward to getting going,” said the attack coach. “We’ve got Rotherham and then Leinster, which has become a bit of a tradition and it will be a great test for us.
“We’ve got Moseley as well and then with the Dragons down in Newport we’re up against my old mate Lee Byrne, who is the captain there.
“They will be good tests and different challenges for us to get us in the right shape for Gloucester at the beginning of September.”
As usual, the coaches will use the friendly encounters to get vital minutes into the players ahead of the start of the serious stuff.
And King has urged fans not to read too much into the games, especially the first blow out against Rotherham this weekend.
“It’s one of those games where a lot of guys will get 40, 45 minutes,” he said. “There will be subs coming on and off and it’s a way of us getting a bit of match fitness into a lot of them.
“In terms of who plays and who doesn’t, I wouldn’t read too much into it. It’s a case of who’s fit, who’s raring to go, who’s worked hard in training and who deserves to play at the Gardens for the first game.
“There will be a lot of changes, a few combinations people may not recognise, but it’s a good opportunity for guys to get match fitness after training hard.”
Saints’ England stars have been at a training camp at Loughborough this week and may be given more time to get up to speed at the Gardens.
“It depends how they are,” King said. “We’ll assess them all individually and put a plan in place for them over the next few weeks.
“Everyone’s slightly different and maybe some need more time to get their fitness up to speed in the gym and things.
“Every player is an individual case and will be treated as such with these four games in mind.”
The chances may be on the slim side, but Northamptonshire Steelbacks still have a chance of securing a place in the Royal London Cup quarter-finals.
A 19-run defeat of Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford courtesy of the Duckworth/Lewis method, means that going into their final group game against Essex in seven days’ time, the Steelbacks are one of three sides in with a hope of progression.
It will be a tall order as Essex, second in the standings and in good form, need to be seen off and both Leicestershire and Derbyshire most likely have to lose to Lancashire and Gloucestershire, respectively.
But all of that can wait as, after two hefty drubbings in the north west, Manchester finally offered up something other than a miserable bus trip home.
Having been sent in for a contest that had been reduced to 40 overs following a delayed start, the Steelbacks’ innings was a tale of two halves, well, that isn’t entirely true as it was more like 25 and 75 per cent.
The first quarter belonged emphatically to the visitors, and more specifically Richard Levi who thumped his way to a 31-ball half century in his customary manner.
Forty-six of the 50 was taken on boundaries as a relatively inexperienced home seam attack was treated disdainfully and after the eight-over powerplay, the score was a healthy 64-0.
In collaboration with List A debutant James Kettleborough, the opening stand was advanced to 87 in the 11th over before Levi was well caught on the square-leg boundary as he aimed to plant Jordan Clarke into the former Stretford End stand.
The South African’s demise saw to the end of the 25 per cent and the rest of the innings was Lancashire’s.
With the 16 overs of spin delivered by Stephen Parry, with figures of 3-23, and Steven Croft, 1-29, placing a brake on proceedings, the Steelbacks limped through the middle overs and were unable to provide any sort of acceleration in the final stages.
A succession of poor shots, none worse than Ben Duckett’s switch-hit that picked out short third-man, betrayed a lack of confidence that has permeated through the batting from way back in April.
Just 120 was scored from overs 10-40 and a paltry 77 in the second 20 and the eventual tally of 200-8, given the opening 45 minutes, appeared at least 40 light.
A similar amount of time into the hosts’ reply, however, and the five an over required will have seemed slightly further away.
And it was Maurice Chambers who was the reason for such a transformation.
It wouldn’t be particularly harsh to say that the former Essex man’s stint at the County Ground has been underwhelming but here he showed exactly why his signature had been sought.
In the space of 11 deliveries, Luis Reece, caught at slip, Karl Brown, chipping to short cover, and Paul Horton, chopping on first ball, were sent back.
Usman Khawaja was going along smoothly at the other end and was responsible for all but half of the total of 47-3 when, one ball into the 11th over, play was halted as the forecast rain turned up.
That left Lancashire 20 shy of the revised target and that is how it stayed as play was brought to a premature conclusion.
David Ripley was thankful for a bit of good fortune as his Northamptonshire Steelbacks side kep their hopes alive in the Royal London Cup.
A 19-run victory over Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford was the outcome on a typically damp Manchester evening and Ripley, whose men need to beat Essex in their final game next week and hope other results go their way, was relieved in the aftermath.
He said: “The rain looked like it was coming, we knew we were ahead with the early wickets and it could’ve come in three minutes earlier and it would’ve been a no-result so it was nice to have a bit of the rub of the green.”
As for the performance, which wasn’t without fault by any means, Ripley paid tribute to Richard Levi who made a savage 68 at the top of the visitors’ order which formed the foundation of a total of 200-8 from their 40 overs.
He added: “We played reasonably well. Richard Levi, we were indebted to him, his innings was by far the innings of the match and helped us get a reasonable score and we started well with the ball.
“We just concentrated on this game and when we get to the Essex game we’ll see where we are.
“That’s an unexpected bonus (that they can still qualify), we’ll get the Notts game, which we’re looking forward to, out of the way and then it will be good that we’ve got something to play for next Thursday.”
Before the Essex contest, there is the matter of a County Championship clash with Nottinghamshire which starts tomorrow (Friday) at midday and while admitting the crowded calendar is far from ideal, Ripley knows that it isn’t just his side in that particular boat.
“The schedule’s difficult for everybody and it’s been a little bit better for us of late,” he said.
“We had our six weeks where it was a bit brutal and I guess this is a pretty tough trip, getting home late and turning it round for a championship game tomorrow but it’s the same for Notts and for everybody.”
The centenary of the First World War has been the inspiration for the latest production in the Made In Northampton season at the Royal & Derngate.
Regeneration is the first stage adaptation of Pat Barker’s First World War novel.
It is set at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917 and follows poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon. His Army psychiatrist Dr William Rivers has the job of returning shell-shocked officers to the front line but he has become more and more troubled by the morality of the job he has to do.
Regeneration is on at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from Friday, August 29, to Saturday, September 20, with evening performances at 7.45pm (except Tuesday, September 2, at 7pm) and matinees most Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm. For tickets, call the box office on 01604 624811 or visit the website at www.royalandderngate.co.uk.
Alex King is cooking up a plan to ensure Saints remain unpredictable to their rivals at home and abroad.
The attack coach arrived at Northampton last summer, bringing a freshness to the club’s offensive game.
It resulted in Aviva Premiership and Amlin Challenge Cup glory, with Saints flourishing under King’s tuition.
And the former Clermont Auvergne mentor has spent the summer coming up with ideas on how to help his club build on last season’s success.
“We’ve got a real cohesive, strong unit, not only good players but good people,” said King. “I’m looking forward to seeing the season start.
“I’ve got one or two new ideas to innovate our game and improve it because the standard of the Premiership gets better and better every year.
“We’ve just got improve in all areas. The margins are so small in the league, we’ve just got to keep getting better and better in all departments.”
Chris Wilder is confident he has the strength of character in the Cobblers dressing room to put together the away form necessary for success this season.
Town play their first Sky Bet League Two away game this weekend when they travel to a York City side that reached the play-offs last term but have failed to win in their opening two matches.
Wilder’s men go into the game in confident mood having secured a Capital One Cup upset in midweek with a 3-2 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux.
But the manager will stress the importance of the league fixtures to his team, and in particular those they play on their travels.
“We’re definitely buoyed by our last two games and we’re very proud of the record that we had away from home last season,” said Wilder, who only lost once away from home last season, at both Oxford and Northampton.
“We will need to replicate that this season if we’re going to be a successful side and achieve what we want to achieve as a squad.
“It’s very important that you pick up a big chunk of your points away from home - the best teams are the ones that get results all the way through the campaign.
“This is our first away league game and it will be important to get something from it. If we’re not going to win it’s important that we don’t get beat.”
Town’s away record under Wilder’s predecessor Aidy Boothroyd was famously bad and this time last year they were starting a run of five successive away games in which they had a player sent off.
The new boss, however, is confident his squad has the mental strength to deal with the challenge of playing at other team’s grounds but knows they must maintain the high standards that have been set so far.
“We need to make our ground a tough place for teams to come and play but as well as that it’s vital to have a decent away record,” he said.
“There is enough experience in the dressing room and enough players who can handle any sort of atmosphere or environment so that isn’t a concern for me.
“What I will demand is a consistency - we need to be competitive, hard to beat and aggressive and we have been those things in the two games so far.”
A musical show that is like a rock mix-tape featuring classic 1980s hits is coming to Milton Keynes Theatre following a three-year West End run.
The songs are all woven into a fun story about a small town girl and a big city rocker falling in love.
Among the hits performed live on stage are We Built This City, The Final Countdown, I Wanna Know What Love Is and Don’t Stop Believing.
The stage show has been a hit all over the world and a film of the musical was produced in 2012 starring Tom Cruise, Russell Brand and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The show stars Ben Richards, who used to play Bruno Milligan in Footballers’ Wives and has a track record of starring roles in West End shows including Guys and Dolls, Night Fever and The Full Monty.
The production also features Noel Sullivan, who was once in Hear’Say and has appeared in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, We Will Rock You and Grease.
The show is on at Milton Keynes Theatre from August 18 to 23.
For tickets call the box office on 0844 871 7652 or visit the ticket website at www.atgtickets.com/miltonkeynes.
The hardest-working bear in light entertainment is paying a visit to the Lighthouse Theatre in Kettering.
Sooty is celebrating his 65th year in showbusiness by going on a UK tour and the show comes to Kettering on August 28.
Sooty will be joined by the usual characters – Sweep and panda friend Soo, along with host Richard Cadell.
The Sooty Show Live is a family show to be enjoyed by youngsters meeting the characters for the first time as well as adults who remember them nostalgically from their own childhoods.
The Sooty Show is the longest-running children’s programme in the world.
The original show was hosted by Harry Corbett and he first appeared on televisison in 1952. Harry retired in 1976 and the show was taken over by his son Matthew, then in 1998 Richard Cadell became the host. For tickets call the box office on 01536 414 141 or visit the website at lighthousetheatre.co.uk.
New plans to redevelop the site of a 19th Century building in Northampton that had to be knocked down after it was severely damaged in an arson attack have been submitted to the borough council.
The former Wardington Court site in Welford Road, Kingsthorpe, was targeted by arsonists in January this year and was demolished by developers MaCarthy & Stone a month later.
A spokesman for McCarthy & Stone said the company had revised its plans for the site as a result of the arson attack and had now submitted a new proposal to Northampton Borough Council to redevelop the site into 56 assisted living apartments.
The plans also include communal facilities for residents, car parking and landscaped gardens.
McCarthy & Stone is also planning to replicate two of Wardington Court’s original facades in the new building.
The apartments will be specifically designed around the needs of older residents, offering on-site care and support and promoting independent, active and healthy lifestyles.
In 2012, McCarthy & Stone held a public consultation about its original plans for 56 apartments and received 70 per cent support from the local community.
Darren Humphreys, regional managing director at McCarthy & Stone (Midlands) said: “We were very disappointed not to be able to proceed with our original plans for this site, which received local support.
“Our new plans have been very carefully considered and our revised design seeks to replicate two of Wardington Court’s original facades which unfortunately had to be demolished due to fire damage.
“There is a considerable local need for this type of specialist Extra Care accommodation for older people. Our proposal will breathe new life into this site and play an important part in contributing towards improving the housing choices available for local older people”.
The new developments would be staffed 24 hours a day, employing an average of 17 workers including a qualified estates manager, care workers, caterers, cleaners and gardening staff.
For more information about the plans go to www.mccarthyandstone-consultation.co.uk/wardingtoncourt or contact the project’s freephone information line on 0800 298 7040.
A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a woman in Grendon.
The arrest was made several hours after police appealed for help in tracing a man they wanted to speak to in connection with a serious assault on Wednesday night.
During the earlier appeal, a police spokesman said: “At about 7.30pm on Wednesday, August 13, a woman was seriously assaulted in Main Road, Grendon.
“The woman needed hospital treatment following the assault.”
Manager Andy Marks insists there is much more to come from Cogenhoe United after seeing them open the new season with two wins.
And he is hoping they can step up their performance levels in the ‘massive’ FA Cup clash with Wembley this weekend.
Cogenhoe welcome the team from the capital to Compton Park in the extra preliminary round of the famous competition.
And Marks wants his team, who have scored three goals in each of their first two league games, to make sure they take their league form into the Cup.
“We’ve got nothing to fear,” he said. “I know we can play better than we have done and that will come.
“We’ve got a few players to come back and hopefully we will click. We need to be better this weekend than we have been in the first two games.
“It’s all about us because although it’s a step into the unknown, we’re at home and we are confident because of how we’ve started.”
On Tuesday night Cogenhoe added Wellingborough Town to the name of Thurnby Nirvana on their list of victims.
And if they can beat Wembley and make it past this stage for the first time in three seasons, they will be able to look forward to a clash with Kettering Town on August 30.
“We’ve had a couple of wins in this competition in the past but we’ve not managed to get as far as we’d have liked,” Marks said.
“It’s about being in the Cup for as long as possible and we know that a game against Wembley will attract attention because of their name.
“Hopefully we can do enough to get through because it would be great to be able to welcome Kettering to our place in the next round.”
By that time, Cogenhoe could have a couple of fresh faces in their squad as Marks is on the look-out for new recruits.
He feels the players he has brought in during the summer have added plenty to the party and is ready to continue the improvement.
“The new players have made us stronger,” said Marks. “We may need to get a couple more in and I want to strengthen in attacking areas.
“We could do with a forward and a winger to add to what we have.”
Long Buckby are among the other sides in FA Cup action this weekend as they take on Hanworth Villa at Station Road.
Sileby Rangers host Hillingdon Borough, while Spencer entertain AFC Kempston Rovers.
Officers from Northamptonshire Police have scored the second worst pass rate in fitness tests, latest results from the College of Policing have shown.
The College of Policing has published its latest results from 32 forces who mostly carried out the tests between March and May this year.
The results show that 75 out of 82 officers from Northamptonshire Police passed the test, a pass rate of 91.5 per cent.
However, this was the second lowest result with many larger forces such as West Yorkshire, Thames Valley and Devon and Cornwall scoring close to 100 per cent.
The national average was 97 per cent.
The statistics show that 21 out of 25 female officers and 54 out of 57 male officers in Northamptonshire passed the fitness test.
The fitness test, which is due to become mandatory in September, involves 15 metre shuttle run is based on scientific research to match the aerobic demands of officer safety training. The standard is the same as that used when recruiting officers.
The guidance requires that officers, who undertake Personal Safety Training, should be able to achieve a level 5:4 on a 15 metre shuttle run.
If an officer is not able to pass the fitness test at the first attempt, the college advises forces to provide support and allow a series of at least two retakes.
If all appropriate support measures and alternatives have been delivered and the officer is still unable to achieve the required standard, the college advises forces to use the unsatisfactory performance procedures.
Rose Bartlett, from the College of Policing, said: “The results show that the vast majority of officers tested are fit.
“The new guidance issued to forces has been designed to provide supportive measures to help officers to pass and the College has now commissioned research in order to understand why women and older officers have a lower pass rate.
“The College will continue to monitor the results of police fitness tests and support forces in helping officers to pass.”
Andrew Hall has been reprimanded by the England & Wales Cricket Board for his behaviour following an incident in Northamptonshire’s match against Derbyshire this week.
Hall and Derbyshire’s Tony Palladino were both reported by umpires Peter Willey and Steve O’Shaughnessy after the Royal London One-Day Cup match on Monday for Level One breaches of the code (using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting and/or making an obscene gesture).
The penalty for the offence is a reprimand.
These penalties remain on their records for a period of two years and the accumulation of nine or more penalty points in any two-year period will result in an automatic suspension.