BLACKPOOL trio Mary Mallinson, Pat Barker and Diana Hunt from Blackpool Newton Hall Indoors Bowls Club have qualified for the national finals of the Golden Charter English Womens Indoor Bowling Association Two Wood Triples to be played at the ISCA Centre in Exeter next month.

The event takes place from March 2-5 when Newton Hall's formidable team will be competing against the best of England's female bowlers.

The event is sponsored by Golden Charter, the UK's largest funeral planning network.

In announcing the decision to back the Two-Wood Triples, Golden Charter chief executive Peter O'Neill said: "We are very pleased to have been accepted as sponsors of this event and to be associated with a game that is playing a larger part in people's leisure time."

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