BELLE Vue have been hit with a fine and points deduction for controversially postponing their Pirates clash – but Poole will have to make the trek north again.

Speedway chiefs ordered a re-staging of the Elite League fixture after giving their verdict on the Aces’ hotly-disputed decision to call off the original meeting.

The Speedway Control Bureau (SCB) today issued a statement which confirmed that Belle Vue had been forced to pay £5,000 and docked three league points.

However, bosses overlooked Poole captain Chris Holder’s plea for his team to be handed all four points, with Pirates instead informed that they will have to visit Belle Vue on a date yet to be announced.

Belle Vue, who had already issued an apology over the incident, previously reported that a burst water pipe had caused flooding at Kirkmanshulme Lane.

That came after the club had confirmed that Artur Mroczka had withdrawn from last month’s scheduled meeting due to injury with Holder later alleging, via social networking website Twitter, that two other Aces stars, rumoured to be Matej Zagar and Magnus Zetter-strom, had missed their flights.

The claim of a waterlogged track was questioned and the heated fall-out and accusations which followed led the SCB to call a “full investigation” into the matter.

A disciplinary hearing was held at the offices of the Auto Cycle Union in Rugby yesterday, with the SCB dishing out the fine and points deduction, calling for a re-staged fixture and banning Belle Vue, until the end of 2014, from cancelling meetings without an inspection from an SCB referee or nominee.

The statement added: “The SCB decided that the club responsible should receive a penalty, but that no other club should benefit.”

Belle Vue have the opportunity to appeal.