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A QUICK GLANCE at the Leicester Tigers team named to play Connacht today [KO 8pm, BT Sport] tells you everything you need to know about their approach to this game.
Leicester do not see themselves as a Challenge Cup side. This will be only their 10th ever outing in the competition. Connacht, on the other hand, have played 126 games in European Rugby’s second-tier tournament.
At the moment, this is Connacht’s level, and a win today would harden their belief that they can finally come out on top in a competition they have been so synonymous with down the years.
Two projects were awarded funding at the recent Buckingham & Villages Community Board meeting. The first was for £2,700 for Maids Moreton Parish Council and Maids Moreton Conservation Group, to carry out bramble clearance and tree planting around a local playing field. The newly cleared area will create more space for sports spectators and the new trees will provide wider and better biodiversity for the area. The second group to successfully gain funding was The Buckingham Society who applied for £2,200 to install a new information board at the former Buckingham Railway Station.
The floods that happened in December was also mentioned at the meeting (see below)