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‘Heartbreaking’: Gloucester City HC left without home pitch after facility blow

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Gloucester City HC, whose women's 1s play in Division One North, could be without a home pitches for up to a year after a local leisure facility went into administration. Aspire Trust, which owns the Oxstalls Sports Park venue where...
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Sunderland boost with new home for hockey

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Hockey has a new home in Sunderland, with the opening of a new purpose-built hockey pitch at Raich Carter Sports Centre. The new pitch marks the return of hockey to the city, as the previous site had been out of...
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Blackpool hockey festival succumbs to 4G

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The Blackpool Easter Festival is no more as it has finally succumbed to non-hockey specific turf. After 70 years, organisers confirmed the worst after the Festival's future was cast into doubt in recent years. “Sadly, the final astro at the...
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Welsh hockey club angry over 3G plans

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Hockey players at a Welsh club who will lose out to 3G say that hundreds of school kids will lose out on sports over football and as they rallied against a council decision to replace a hockey specific pitch. Ceredigion...
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Hockey Matters: England taking GB place in Pro League was plain wrong

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As a Wales and worldwide hockey fan I am asking this question: Why were England allowed to take the GB FIH space when it is meant to be GB? So the Welsh and for that matter the Scottish athletes...
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Hockey at schools: ‘Our pitch has been set on fire – now we could fold in two years’

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Opposition have taken to calling the rented Academy pitch where Urmston HC play as "mud-baths”. Players base their monikering on account of the flooding, silting, standing mud and general disrepair of the facility. With eight senior teams and a...
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‘Devastated’: Stafford lose hockey pitch to 3G ahead of new season

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The future of Stafford’s oldest sports club is under threat, with the hockey club forced to find a new ‘home’ pitch after another 3G hammer blow.  The news comes two weeks after a boost for the sport following England women’s...
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Replacing with 3G is ‘step back for hockey and kick in the teeth for women’s sport’

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A local Welsh hockey club says that plans to redevelop their existing pitch where they play will be a "step back for hockey and a kick in the teeth for women’s sport." Clwb Hoci Castell Newydd Emlyn (Newcastle Emlyn) in...
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Barry Middleton’s mum campaigns to save Welsh hockey club from 3G

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The threat of 3G has reared its head again as The Hockey Paper hears of a club and school in West Wales earmarked for conversion from a hockey suitable surface. Proposals are currently meeting stiff resistance from campaigners.  Sheila Middleton...
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‘Inadequate’: Plymouth clubs sets up petition to save hockey in the city

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Hockey in Plymouth is being neglected while the city council is failing to provide adequate playing facilities. That's the verdict of the hockey community in the city who have now set up a petition to help the sport, as...
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