AN ANDOVER athlete has received a £500,000 boost to her future athletics career following another dominant performance on the national stage.

Talented teenager Holly Mills put pen to paper on a sponsorship deal with Newbury-based company BDZ Holdings last week which could see the young athlete net half-a-million pounds to help support her goal of reaching the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

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Also in this Friday's sports pages:

- Lions break their 121 year goalscoring record in 16 goal thriller

- Andover Sports FC end Broughton's unbeaten run

- Diamonds start new season with a win

- Town suffer double cup blow

- Overton end winless drought with cup victory over Stockbridge

- Andover Tennis club host Club and Youth championships

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