All fired up for special event; ScrumDown.FIREFIGHTERS from across the globewill descend on Waterloo and Hoylake rugby clubs nextweek. They are hosting the sevens tournament in the 10thWorld Firefighters Games and entrance is free. Hoylakewillwelcome competitors for the heats from 10amnext Friday with the finals being played next Sunday at Waterloo from 11.30am. Some of the nations represented in the sevens include SouthAfrica, France, SaudiArabia, Wales and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . Hoylake's shorelinewill be the venue for the beach rugby Beach Rugby is a sport based on rugby league. There is no centralized regulation of the sport as in Beach Soccer, but leagues are common across Europe, and the sport is particularly popular in Italy. onWednesday. The championships,which includes 72 events across 43 venues, starts tomorrowand goes on until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links 2with the EchoArena being transformed into the official Games village. The fullWFG08 events programme is available at: www.wfg08.com |
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