HOCKEY: Three Marlow boys have spent the week in Gibraltar training with England's U18 squad.

Nick Catlin, Tom Woolven and Ed Kelleher all jetted out to the rock this week as part of England's 22-man training squad.

They made the cut after a training week at Bisham Abbey and will now be hoping to keep their places when the squad is whittled down to 20 players for next year's international programme.

All three Marlovians play their club hockey for Reading and have represented England at U16 level.

Now the trio are aiming to reach the U18 side as a trio as well.

But they will have to wait until after Christmas to find out if they have escaped the coaches' latest culling of the squad.