REBECCA Craigie and Megan Huxley grabbed glory for Vale Royal AC at the Manchester Cross Country League meet at Macclesfield on Sunday.

Craigie won the under 15s race and Huxley was second in the under 13s - after falling flat on her face in deep mud!

Stuart Doyle was Vale Royal's fastest senior finishing 10th of 200 runners and he was followed in by Gareth Williams 14th, George Thompson 20th and Colin Rathbone.

Also running: U11s - Louise Towers 7th, Emma Vennard; U13s - David Nicholson; Claire Perry 7th, Jade Evans 18th; U15s - Andrew Perry; Hannah Paver 5th, Nikki Meadows 10th, Danielle Jones, Milly Ashworth; U17s - Peter Cox.

Vale Royal are organising an open cross country race at Knight's Grange on Saturday over 2.3k and 4.3k. The event is open to all over the age of nine years old.

Entries are taken from noon at the track for a 1pm start.