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Women's Institute members are to battle it out at sports including boxing - in a national Nintendo Wii championship.

The games console, which allows people to play each other at simulated sports, has proved a hit with WI ladies in Cornwall.

They were introduced to it by the Cornwall Sports Partnership as a way of keeping fit, reports The Sun.

Now the CSP is planning to hold a contest for women from all over the UK in the autumn.

Sheila Rapson, 75, the president of Gwinear Parish WI in west Cornwall, is set to enter in both tennis and boxing.

She said: "I'd never even played tennis before but discovered I had a good backhand. WI members are very open to new things."

Lis Davis, 50, added: "It's tremendous fun. Who would have thought I would be boxing?"

CSP coach Chris Hunkin said: "We tested a Wii and found it does get the heart going."