IF GUTS, determination and perseverance were a pre-requisite for winning medals, then Bude Nippers should have come back from the recently held Nippers National Championships 2012 at Portreath with a hatful. As it was, a team of 17 Nippers made the journey down west to compete on Friday, August 31 and Saturday, September 1 and came back with a small, but hard fought, tally of medals.

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