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      <image:title>New Funding Search Tool launches to help sector secure investment</image:title>
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      <image:title>New GKB Combiseeder for Bancroft Amenities</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Gloucester City pitch survives first test</image:title>
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      <image:title>New golf academy complex at Brookmans Park to be one of the best in UK</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Golf Facilities at Royal Ascot</image:title>
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      <image:title>Plastic pollution: Wales should cut 3G sports pitch waste</image:title>
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      <image:title>Playfootball Romford lands April&apos;s &quot;Outstanding London Sports Venue Award&quot;</image:title>
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      <image:title>PlayFootball Shepherd’s Bush brings home November’s Outstanding London Sports Venue Award</image:title>
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      <image:title>Playfootball Shepherds Bush scoops first MyLocalPitch’s January Outstanding Sports Facility Award</image:title>
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      <image:title>Plymouth Argyle appoint GL Events UK</image:title>
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      <image:title>RCA Chief Executive Commends Racecourse Achievements</image:title>
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      <image:title>Re-think On Headingley Redevelopment Plan</image:title>
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      <image:title>Reach Academy picks up March’s Outstanding Sports Venue Award</image:title>
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      <image:title>Ready to roll when cricket resumes</image:title>
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      <image:title>Real Madrid&apos;s Galactico groundsman leaves the club</image:title>
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      <image:title>Real Madrid secure loan to redevelop Santiago Bernabeu</image:title>
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      <image:title>Real Madrid stadium plans blocked by city council</image:title>
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      <image:title>Reaseheath Show gains Momentum</image:title>
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      <image:title>Rebranding For influential Golf Industry Group</image:title>
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      <image:title>Record attendance at Amenity Forum Conference</image:title>
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      <image:title>Redditch Cricket Club&apos;s teenage groundsman Jacob Ottley wins &apos;young volunteer&apos; award</image:title>
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      <image:title>Replay Continues to Expand</image:title>
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      <image:title>Replay Revive University’s All Weather Pitches</image:title>
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      <image:title>Researchers at Ghent University have developed a process that turns grass into biofuel.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Retail scheme to finance £10m stadium for Cornwall</image:title>
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      <image:title>Retiring groundsman Reg Summers looks back on 44 years with Liverpool FC</image:title>
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      <image:title>Revealed: First images of how Man City Etihad Stadium expansion and new fan zone could look</image:title>
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      <image:title>Revolutionary hybrid grass technology set to transform cricket</image:title>
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      <image:title>RFU and FA discuss Liverpool grassroots facility partnership</image:title>
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      <image:title>RFU execs lift the lid on artificial grass pitch programme</image:title>
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