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Hockey: Garstang look to an exciting future.

Wyre's only hockey club is teaming up with Wyre Borough Council to raise the profile of the sport.

Garstang Ladies Hockey Club is in its 50th year, but has to play its matches in Preston due to a lack of facilities and has no official accreditation.

Plans to change all that, however, are now under way after the club forged links with the council's leisure development team.

The two will now work together towards achieving ClubsFirst status, a national recognition scheme that shows the club has a number of standards in place such as child protection policies and the right level of coaching.

This in turn will make it easier to apply for grants and could also ...

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