BADMINTON players from the Bolton League figured prominently in the Lancashire Over 50s' side which has just won two national championships.
The Red Rose side clinched both the national team knockout title at Telford and, at Milton Keynes last weekend, the national league championships.
Pictured are (back row, left to right) Sue Whittaker (Blackburn), Angela Brown (Markland Hill BC, Bolton) Sylvia Gill (Markland Hill), Elizabeth Greenwood (Bury BC), Maureen Rimmer (Southport) and front row, Geoff Williams (Markland Hill), Bill Hamblett (Christ Church BC, Bolton), John Cocker (Mid Lancs), Mike Mitson (Christ Church), Chris Vines (Christ Church) and captain Graham Holt (Bury).
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