ATHLETICS: HURDLER Katey Read grabbed a bronze medal in the AAA U20 Indoor Championships at Birmingham on Sunday.

The 18-year-old former Malbank School pupil, from Wrenbury, recorded a time of 8.64secs in the final of a hotly contested 60m hurdles event.

Her dad Clive said: 'Katey did well and the race went to form really. The girls who beat her had run faster so it was expected. It was a good race.'

Trainee midwife Katey, who runs for Liverpool Harriers but trains at the Cumberland Arena, failed to make it out of the first round at the previous week's senior AAA Indoor Championships, at Sheffield.