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Team GB speed skater heads to frozen fen fields
Skaters have flocked to The Fens, including a Team GB speed skater.
Fen skating takes place when a field floods and then freezes over, so the ice is very shallow, in places just a few centimeters, unlike frozen lakes.
Peter Riches is a Team GB short track skater who came from Nottingham to try out the conditions at Welney, where John Devine was watching.
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