Get Your Skates On for Raucously Retro Adrenalin Rush ; the American Craze of Roller Derby Is Becoming Increasingly Popular in the Westcountry. Petra Mann Went Along to a Game Find Out What All the Fuss Is About.

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The whirring and scraping of rollerskates echoes across the brightly-lit college sports hall amid a chorus of shouts.

A fast-moving cluster of women on roller skates clad in gleaming crash helmets, gum shields, elbow and knee pads hurtle around the track pushing and shoving each other.

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Get Your Skates On for Raucously Retro Adrenalin Rush ; the American Craze of Roller Derby Is Becoming Increasingly Popular in the Westcountry. Petra Mann Went Along to a Game Find Out What All the Fuss Is About.

Dressed in T-shirts and shorts pulled over thick patterned tights the battling pack merges into a colourful blur as it whooshes by.

On first inspection the spectacle at Penryn College, near Falmouth, Cornwall all looks a bit rough and...

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