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INVESTEC WOMEN'S PREMIER DIVISION

Leicester v Slough – Saturday 6 April (time tbc)

Olton & WW v Uni Birmingham – Sat 30 March (10.30)

Reading v Sutton Coldfield – Saturday 30 March (time tbc)

INVESTEC WOMEN'S CONFERENCE EAST

Bromley & Beckenham v St Albans – Saturday 30 March (13.00)

Chelmsford v Old Loughtonians – was to be Wednesday 27 March (this to be rearranged)

Ipswich v Wimbledon – Wimbledon have conceded

MEN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE – POSTPONEMENT CATCH-UPs

Last week's appalling weather made a nonsense of hockey's so-called 'all-weather' pitches. A number of matches were postponed due to the snow.

The Hockey Writers' Club announced the 2012 winners of the Higgins Group plc Youth and Junior Awards with the presentations made at the Annual Awards Presentation Lunch on Tuesday 22nd January 2013 at the Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knightsbridge. Mr Richard Higgins, Chairman of Higgins Group plc made the presentations. The President of the world body, the FIH, was in attendance at the function.

The nominations for this year's entry gave the adjudicating committee a difficult task as the quality of the nominees was very high.

Recently retired top umpire, Andy Mair, has recently been named Eurohockey Photographer of the Year.

With more time on his hands Andy has returned to a long-time hobby and was very active at the Euro Hockey League finals with his brilliant shots resulting in his award.

We will contact Andy and see whether we can get a sample of his work for members to drool over.

 The Pakistan Hockey Federation has sacked foreign coach Michel Van Den Heuvel of The Netherlands and appointed former Olympians Khawaja Junaid and Akhtar Rasool as the coach and manager of the national team.

As the Pakistan Hockey Federation now ponders action against six rebel players, Pakistan's highly respected correspondent, ZAKIR HUSSAIN SYED, looks towards London 2012.

40-YEAR HISTORY

For the occasion of the Club's 40th Anniversary we produced a booklet on the main points of our first 40 years. A copy was supplied to each guest at the recent Annual Awards Luncheon.

We can now make this available to visitors to our site by download. It is a pdf document and is available simply by clicking on the 'download' button.