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Woman who 'didn't like pigeons at all' has been racing them for 30 years as a hobby at Midlands Continental Flying Club

A Midlands woman who has been racing pigeons for 30 years says she ‘didn’t like them at all’ - as she shares how these misunderstood birds became her passion.

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A pigeon racing enthusiast says she ‘hated’ the birds - until she met her husband and it became a hobby they could share together.

When they moved in together in 1993, Pauline Brown accepted her new husband’s interest in homing pigeons, but explains that she ‘didn’t like them at all’.

But it wasn’t long before Pauline, from Cannock, developed a passion for the misunderstood birds. “I was always at the bottom of the garden, and I’d see it coming in the distance, and you just get into it.”