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Sheepshanks determined to learn

DAVID Sheepshanks is determined that Ipswich Town learns from past mistakes as it dips into the international market once more. With the Blues hoping to appoint an overseas scout with the next month or so Sheepshanks admits Town's foray into Europe last time round did not work as well as hoped.

  • West Ham and West Brom come to Town
  • TONY Mowbray's newly-promoted West Brom and fellow Premiership outfit West Ham will provide the pre-season opposition at Portman Road. Mowbray and Mark Venus will bring the Championship's title winners back to East Anglia on July 26, while the Hammers will be in town on July 26.
  • Seagulls on Town's pre-season list
  • IPSWICH Town will unveil all their pre-season fixtures today with Brighton already confirming they will be among the opponents. The Blues will entertain two Premier League clubs and will play over in Northern Ireland, with the Irish press claiming Glentoran will host one of the games.

    COLCHESTER Us

    • Lockwood set to sign
    • COLCHESTER United are today expected to sign Matt Lockwood from Nottingham Forest. A fee has been agreed between the two clubs and Lockwood was talking over personal terms with the U's this morning.

    OTHER SPORT

    • Hectic time starts here
    • IPSWICH Evening Star Witches begin a hectic schedule of four meetings in six days with an Elite League visit to Eastbourne Eagles tonight (start 7.

    Celebrating Suffolk's Spice Girls

    Suffolk might be quietish but it's never lacked oomph. Steven Russell discovers how a corn merchant's daughters helped shape the face of Britain with their own brand of 'girl power' JENIFER Glynn, being a proper Cambridge historian and all that, probably won't appreciate the analogy with popular culture, but the spirited women she's written about are really Suffolk's very own Spice Girls.

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