Athletics: Boost for Edinburgh AC as UK Women's League match comes to Meadowbank

THERE was good news for Capital athletics this week when it was revealed that Meadowbank is to host a UK Women's League First Division match in 2011, the first time they have used the Commonwealth Games stadium for at least a decade.

Edinburgh AC will stage the third-round match of the League at Meadowbank on Saturday, July 2.

"It will be nice to have it at our home track at last - it will certainly be the first time in my time as team manager that it's been here as we've gone to Grangemouth for our home fixtures in the recent past," said team manager Ann Scott. "We had a bit of a fight to get it as some of the South clubs didn't want the expense of having to travel, but we reminded them that we do this all the time, and it is a National League after all."