Following last year’s reduction in number of centrally funded training centres from five to just two, British Swimming has instead launched a new performance funding programme for clubs, distributing over £100,000.

Plymouth’s Ben Proud set a new British Record for the 50m freestyle at the South West Regional Championships last weekend – but it almost never happened after problems with the timing system.

As part of the new British Swimming maxim to race more team of six British swimmers are heading to the US this week to compete in the next round of the US Grand Prix series which takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 15th to 18th May.

Having completed a hugely successful collegiate season, Scotland’s Dan Wallace is now in hot water over in the US after he was suspended indefinitely by his University of Florida squad over unspecified “violations of team rules”.