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14/02/2012 - The weekend of 10th -12th February saw the annual get together of the members of the British International Championship Club to honour the winners of the club’s National and International races for the 2011 season.

19/12/2011 - Recently British fanciers Mike and Cynthia Mitchell, Kevin and Moira Buddle and Geoff and Catherine Cooper made the journey to Belgium to attend the prize presentation for the Entente Belg at the Hotel Cortina, Wevelgem.

21/11/2011 - My name is Richard Chambers and I am a teacher and the loft manager at the Kingsmead Technology College School Pigeon Loft. We have set up a racing pigeon loft at the school to try and encourage more young people into the sport, and also to give young people at our school an alternative to the Playstation’s Xboxes and TV screens that so many of our students are dedicating there spare time to.

18/11/2011 - The eagle may be the symbol of American freedom and military might, but no eagle ever received France's Croix de Guerre for valor, or saved the lives of 1,000 troops trapped behind enemy lines, or walked five miles to deliver vital information after being shot out of the sky.

16/11/2011 - Early Saturday morning Geoff Cooper and his wife Catherine, along with Mark Gilbert made the journey over to Verviers in Belgium to attend the prize presentation and collect their trophies for the fantastic International race they had from Agen with the Bordeaux Televie organisation.

14/11/2011 - The preliminary results of the championships from the International Long Distance Club have been published.

02/11/2011 - Suzy Schollier, primary school teacher in the 4th form, tells us about Ichtor, a skills-integrated project at the primary school “De Schatkist” in Ichtegem (Flanders).

27/10/2011 - The official results of the national general championships and the national ace pigeon championships of the Belgian pigeon federation in 2011 are known.

18/10/2011 - Pigeon feathers can be used for many things... For many years now, the British artist Kate MccGwire has been collecting moulted feathers to produce works of art.

17/10/2011 - Children and pigeons, pigeons and children…it’s still an amazing thing! Goose bumps every Friday after school! Parents, grand-parents and little brothers and sisters…They all come to have fun with their feathered friends!

17/10/2011 - Claessens-Wyndorps from Sint-Antonius (Belgium) are the winners of the individual championship this year. The club championship was won by the Belgian club 'St Gillis Waas'.

15/10/2011 - Remy Vantorre from Virelles wins the Euro Diamond championship this year. Germain D'Hondt from Anzegem is second, Willy Verbruggen from Londerzeel ended third.

12/10/2011 - A classic section of the rating of a pigeon, is the judgement of the eye. Every pigeon fancier, wherever in the world, always looks at the eye during the rating of a pigeon. And if you ask: what do you see, then you receive thousands of different answers.

05/10/2011 - The winners of the Euregio Championship are known.

24/08/2011 - The CFW (long distance club of Wallonia) has finished its championship of best international ace pigeons from Marseille in the last three years. The winner is Jules Hardy from Riemst (Belgium).

13/04/2011 - Who succeeds Kipp & Sohne as winners in the Cup of Flanders 2011.

17/01/2011 - The last week of July the noise was tremendous in our lofts when the widowers came home from their last race. They were allowed to keep their hens. For them the season was over.