Woman banned from pavilion
| NZPA-AP London A top county cricket club which has agreed to waive its men-only rule for the Duchess of York yesterday banned a woman from its pavilion. The Lancashire Cricket Club is to allow The Duchess to become the first woman to walk up its pavilion steps in July despite a controversial 125-year-old block on women members. Officials yesterday stopped a woman member of a television crew, Margaret Smith, from filming an interview with the England captain, David Gower. The Granada television crew were waiting to interview Gower at the start of the Benson and Hedges cup tie against the home county when stewards ordered Ms Smith out. “I was very disappointed,” she said. “We didn’t even get as far as the pavilion. I simply presented my pass and was told I couldn’t come in because I was a woman.” The rule has stood despite fierce opposition from hundreds of club members who narrowly lost a vote on the issue in December. The club has said the rules will be “broken or stretched” for the Duchess when she and Prince Andrew visit the ground for the fourth test against Australia on July 27.
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