Triple Sussex champion Clare Milborrow bounced back to form in the Horsham indoor meeting at Broadbridge Heath.

Six months after a serious leg injury, during which time she has got married and become Clare Harman, she chalked up her first victories in elegant style.

She squeezed out talented young Tonbridge athlete Jackie Jenner in the 50m and then took on Julia Bennett, one of Britain's best heptathletes, in the hurdles.

The Horsham star scored a comfortable victory against an athlete who next weekend will be donning a Great Britain vest in an indoor international match at Cardiff.

Like Harman, who is a primary schoolteacher, Bennett teaches PE in the Brighton area and had injury problems which deprived her of a chance in the Commonwealth Games.

It was an important come-back for Harman, who had won both sprints and the 100m hurdles at the Sussex champi-onships in record time before suffering an ankle injury which ruled her out for the rest of the last track season.

In the men's events, Brighton's Paul McKeown, who won four under-20 titles at the county championships, step-ped up to the senior age group.

Although he clocked 7.5sec. in the 50m hurdles, the same time as Alex Beech, from Medway, he had to settle for second place.

McKeown was also squeezed into second place in the 50m flat race behind Enfield's Ian Clarke.

After their historic victories in the Surrey Cross Country Championships, Crawley's Paul Rodgers and Ed Prickett clashed in the Tadworth ten-mile multi-terrain race.

Prickett, who had won the under-20 title, seemed deter-mined to stamp his authority on training companion Rodgers, who had won the Surrey senior title, and did just that.

The second British runner to finish in the European under-20 cross country championships before Christmas, he romped clear to win by nearly three minutes.