Gold medal winners Neil Dew and Jack Locket led the way as Ruislip-based Turtles enjoyed a highly successful National Association of Swimming Clubs for the Handicapped (NASCH) National Championships.

Dew, 16, won the junior 25m title for an impressive third year in a row and the one-length Champion Cup, at the Leamington Spa event.

Clubmate Locket, 15, who like Dew has Down's Syndrome, claimed the junior 50m title and the two-length Champion Cup and the pair teamed up with Kingfishers club member Sebastian Fisher-Burrows to land bronze in the junior 100m relay.

In the adult section Karen Hoffman clinched silver in the ladies 25m and Anne Rourke grabbed bronze in the 50m and they were joined by Erica Beckwith as they collected bronze in the relay.

Turtles Swimming Club is based at Highgrove Pool - see www.ruislipturtles.org.uk for more information or come to the pool on Saturdays, 5-6pm. [25a0] Hillingdon Swimming Club's Lucas Navarro, 13, won a silver medal in the breaststroke and a bronze in the individual medley at the recent Barnet Copthall 100m Licensed Meet.