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AS well as restarting boxing training after the coronavirus lockdown, Tamworth Boxing Club has been running a programme to prevent radicalisation and extremism.

Having to restrict numbers, due to Covid precautions, it’s a relief that boxers have now been able to return to the gym. “I think mental wellbeing of young people as a whole took a massive dip. I think that by Christmas we will realise the “Any club is an extended family.”

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