SEVEN Herefordshire students have been trained by Worcester Angling Academy to help them earn their Sports Leader Level 1 assistant coaches award.

The students learnt new skills including planning and preparing events, adapting to different situations and learning to work with candidates with differing abilities and special needs.

Experienced tutors and coaches worked with the children at Ullingsworth pools and Burley Gate village hall to help them towards volunteer coach status.

The academy has also brought back its popular club and 16 members turned up bright and early including 10 children at the event at a lake near Orcop for the first event of the year.

Despite a cold start the sun broke through, and every participant managed to catch something with one lady even bagging more than 40 fish.

Anyone wishing to get involved with the club should call Mark Eacock on 07765565778.

l TWENTY-four anglers fished at the latest Silver Fish open at Docklow Pools with Eric Davies top rod.

Davies caught 29lbs 3oz off peg 38 at the recently revamped Snake Lake, pipping Docklow regular Ron Ord by 3oz.