Stephen Whitaker leading A&T's Reece Pollitt in 2013. Photo courtesy of Sue Tydd.
ASTLEY & Tyldesley will have their biggest first-team squad since racing into cycle speedway 's Premier League in 2007 after making eight transfer window signings.
Latest to join the Gin Pit ranks are Richard Harrison, who now makes up a quartet of Stoke-based riders after joining A&T from Horspath, and former Stockport and Tameside rider Stephen Whitaker who has signed from Bury.
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