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BLUE PLAQUE FOR PEARCE

WALES EBA Vice-Chairman and Secretary Wynford Jones is one of my regular correspondents, and I was delighted to hear from him that on Friday, September 29, a blue plaque was unveiled at the Waterloo Hotel in Newport in memory of former British heavyweight champion David Pearce, who trained there.

“Following the unveiling of a statue in 2018,” Wynford said, “the fundraising team, including

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