Championship club’s captain feared he would be paralysed following freak injury

WHITEHAVEN skipper James Newton might have fractured his neck while playing for the club, but the 32-year-old hooker says a frank conversation with his specialist left him thinking: "I've been very lucky." Newton, who is now on the road to recovery, has told League Express about the exceptionally tense wait between sustaining the injury during t

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