Skating Sisters

Skating Sisters

It may not be a sport of kings, but roller hockey has a long and noble history.

Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel played it in the early 1900s, and now three Plymouth sisters are taking it to the max.

Ruth, Emma and Anna Russell have been playing roller hockey for just over three years.

Their father Paul is a coach, so the family’s weekends revolve around travelling to and from games.

The game is loud, fast, it’s played in an echoing sports hall and the goalies spend the entire game on their knees. It’s not for the faint-hearted.

To read the rest of this article, see BBC Devon

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Here you can find the ramblings of a trapeze artist turned journalist who ran away from the circus to join the BBC. Cathy "mine's a Kir Royale" Keir then spent thirteen years working in Jersey, Guernsey and Devon, before downgrading to what you see before you. She has contributed articles to The Guardian, The Stage and Television Today, Junior Magazine and both the BBC and Bad Mothers Club websites. She has two children who think women can’t be prime ministers. She blames herself.
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