Article: Billiards match cut short by tide of ravers; `Stately affair' clashes with `smutty club action.(News)

Byline: DAVID POWELL

A WORLD billiards contest was cut short yesterday after a mix-up saw the North Wales venue double-booked with a rave.

The final of the 2005 World Professional Billiards Championships was due to be staged tonight at Pontins' Prestatyn Sands Holiday Centre.

But the event clashes with a rave expected to attract up to 10,000 dance music-lovers.

Flustered organisers from World Snooker, the governing body that runs the billiard contest, were forced to shorten the championships and finish 24 hours earlyTournament director Alan Chamberlain said last night: ``We have 25 billiards aficionados here, of middle to pensionable ...

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