The Cambridge Evening News has launched an eight-page grassroots sports pull-out as part of its Weekend Edition on a Saturday.

The new YouthScene Sport section is sponsored by Barclays Bank and aimed at schools as well as local sports clubs.

Editor Murray Morse said: "We've been wanting to get this project off the ground for some time and now, thanks to Barclays, we've managed it.

"We knew grassroots sport was booming in our region, particularly girls' football, but the interest YouthScene has created among readers and local sports clubs and schools has been phenomenal."

The first issue covered more than a dozen different sports, including boys and girls' football and rugby, tennis, BMX cycling, gymnastics, trampolining and karate.

Each week the pull-out will have a page dedicated to a local school – in the launch issue the Kings School at Ely covered hockey, rugby and rowing.

Murray said: "Since we published the first edition of YouthScene Sport, we've been inundated by more clubs and schools wanting to have their results, reports and pictures included.

"We've also had a great response from local professional football clubs, such as Cambridge United and Histon, who have agreed to put up offers and prizes, or to send people along to coach children."