When Adrian Stephenson played for Devon club Isca in the early Sixties, his team had to gain clearance from air traffic control to play in the middle of Exeter Airport’s aerodrome grass pitch. “As a centre-forward it was better than skinning oneself on the shale at Crystal Palace,” he recalled. “We all wondered if we would survive and our knees would quit.”
One of the fastest women on the course at Sunday’s London Marathon was a Warrington resident
The county were stripped of Test status and demoted in 2016 following ECB sanctions.