David Wing - Leeds City Cup

Arthur Selman - Chairman

Winners - Mollie Temple & Linda Holdroyde

The present Cathedral had to be built on a small hillside plot and is therefore architecturally unique. It has narrow transepts ad chapels with no wings to accommodate the restricted site. 

David and his Bike 

A City Cup event will be held at every bridge club and a Cup presented (as a gift from me) to the club. Each cup will be engraved with the name of the City plus the Winners names and hopefully this can then become an annual event.

Should the clubs (or indeed anyone) wish to donate to the Alzheimers Society this can be done via the website: www.justgiving.com/citycup

David Wing - Hull City Cup

Lester Battersby - Chairman

Winners - Mamie Seal & Brenda Ryley

Largest (by floor area) Parish Church in England. William Wilberforce, the slave trade abolitionist, was baptised here.

David and his Bike 

A City Cup event will be held at every bridge club and a Cup presented (as a gift from me) to the club. Each cup will be engraved with the name of the City plus the Winners names and hopefully this can then become an annual event.

Should the clubs (or indeed anyone) wish to donate to the Alzheimers Society this can be done via the website: www.justgiving.com/citycup

England Women win Mind Sports Gold!

England have won the World Mind Sports Games in Lille, retaining their title from four years ago in Beijing. After a slow start to the event, they were never very troubled once it reached the knockout stages and beat China, Sweden and France before defeating Russia by 69 IMPs in the final.

Congratulations to Heather Dhondy, Nevena Senior, Sally Brock, Nicola Smith, Susan Stockdale and Fiona Brown with captain Jeremy Dhondy and coach David Burn.

• The winning captain's blog
• Photos of the winners
• EBU Press Release

• Official website
• What does it take to be an England international?
• Telegraph article about the winners

Tom Bradley Award - 2011

Congratulations to Alan Green (Suffolk) who has been awarded the 2011 Tom Bradley Award.

The Tom Bradley Award was created after the death of the former Treasurer of the EBU, who was a champion of attracting new persons into the game of bridge. Tom was particularly supportive of endeavours which were aimed at the younger player.

Alan has worked extremely hard over the last couple of years in introducing Minibridge and bridge to various schools, which is especially exceptional considering the wide geographical areas that he's reached throughout East Anglia.

Alan has now set up a team who assist him with the various schools already involved. He currently has plans to introduce Minibridge and bridge to new schools in the area, please let us know if you can help (at Minibridge@ebu.co.uk).

John Pain, EBU Education Manager, said: "Alan has a great skill in teaching all levels and ages of children, and in providing a well-rounded education of the game. He is an ideal recipient of the Tom Bradley Award, because of all the amazing work in the wide geographic expanse of East Anglia."

The Tom Bradley Award is assigned each year to a non-school teacher for services to the teaching of bridge in England.

Matt Betts

A talk with the England stars!

Once we got over a few technical difficulties, we had a great time chatting with David Gold, Heather Dhondy and Sally Brock on Friday evening and the video is now available to view on Youtube.

• Watch the video

David wing - Sunderland City Cup

Chris Hiller - chairman

George Irwing & Alleyn Erskine

Sunderland does not have a Cathedral but in 1998, following the grant of City status, St. Michael's church was redesignated as Sunderland Minster. Robert de Geneva the Rector 1375-8  became Pope Clement 7th.

David and his Bike 

A City Cup event will be held at every bridge club and a Cup presented (as a gift from me) to the club. Each cup will be engraved with the name of the City plus the Winners names and hopefully this can then become an annual event.

Should the clubs (or indeed anyone) wish to donate to the Alzheimers Society this can be done via the website: www.justgiving.com/citycup

Diary - Coming in October

Unfortunately the 2012 - 2013 diaries will be delayed until the October edition of English Bridge, because we were let down by our suppliers at the last minute. Please note that all events up to October have been fully updated on the website in our Coming Soon section. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

• Future Events - Coming Soon