Table Tennis Comes to Bishop Auckland

  • Saturday, 11th August, 2012

  • By Bishop FM News Team

Andy Sixsmith and Paul Campbell gate-crashed a training session at Bishop Auckland Table Tennis Club last night.

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Matthew Porter - Club Founder

Andy caught up with Matthew Porter who set up and runs the club.

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Paul spoke to Tom Whittaker, one of the club’s members.

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Club Members Practising Their Sport

Finally Andy took part in a training session to introduce him to table tennis, apologies in advance for the background “ping-pong” noise:

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Thanks to Matt and everyone at Bishop Auckland Table Tennis Club for letting Andy & Paul interrupt their training session.  And as Matt has just said, if you are interested in going along to play, their training sessions are every Friday at 7:30 at Bishop Barrington school, in the sports hall.

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