PENDLE athlete Neil Tattersall is going all out to regain the Chorley Park Series title after missing out to Paul Muller last summer.

In the first of four Friday Night races at Astley Park, Neil laid down his marker, pulling out a clear minute over second placed Steve Williams in the short 5Km race.

Significantly his time of 16:26 was 40 seconds faster than he ran last season, food for thought for the absent Muller.

Tattersall turned down the chance to go to America with Michael Green in 1997 and for a while afterwards failed to match Green's progress.

But in the last couple of years, the 23-year-old has re-emerged winning the Chorley Millennium Grand Prix and the Chorley Park Series in 2000, and being selected for the North of England Cross Country Team last winter.

Following Chorley-based Chris Seddon in fourth and Blackburnian Will Garner fifth, came the contest of the evening between Chorley AC juniors Peter Dickenson and Nathan Lawton.

Nat led by a whisker on the first lap before Peter used his strength over the second to clinch sixth in 18:17.

Third Chorley AC counter David Herne sealed team honours for the club.

Junior Joanna Gill of Chorley Harriers won a decisive victory in the ladies race with a half a minute margin over Darwen Dasher Zoe Haslam (previously Zoe Braithwaite).

Joanna is showing the same promise that elder sister Vicky, the Great Britain International, has already realised.

36 of 43 in the junior race represented the Chorley clubs and the honours were shared.

Organisers Chorley AC had the individual winners Ben Stubbs from Brinscall and Laura Livesey while the Harriers fielded the winning team with Mark Thompson, Chris Greenbank and Andrew Thompson.