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Launceston Aug 10 2013_Layout 1 08/08/2013 13:44 Page 32 Club news Ladies side formed: Elmore will be also be running a Ladies team this season in the Westward Developments Devon Women’s Football League, Division1. Jason Rainey joins youth team set-up: The successful Tiverton Town Under16 management team of Jason Rainey and Neil Hopkins has moved across town to join the Elmore youth set-up. The team is managed by Jade Maryan and the secretary is Jo Hill. The team will be coached by Adam Burden and Adam Passmore. Jason Rainey New programme editor: Former local journalist Colin Gunney, who reported on Elmore for the Devon & Somerset News back in the late 1960s and early 1970s has taken on the role of PR co-ordinator. Rainey, a defender who played for Elmore for 14 years in the Western league, and Hopkins will manage Elmore’s Under-18 side alongside Matt Howe. All three are qualified Level 2 coaches and have extensive experience at all levels of football in the Tiverton area. Rainey also manages the County U16s team and is on the management team for the County U18s side alongside Elmore first team manager Pete Buckingham. Colin is content managing the website and editing/designing the matchday programme. Before leaving Tiverton in late 1972, he was chairman of the Tiverton Youth Centre Football Club (comprised mainly of young Elmore players) which gained promotion from the third to the first division of the Exeter Sunday League in successive seasons. Neil Hopkins In Reading, Colin was the Reading FC correspondent for the Reading Chronicle for five years, sports editor of the Berkshire Mercury and later chief sub-editor of the Chronicle group. For 14 ye \