I am sorry to announce the sad news that Bob Muddimer has passed away.

The afternoon regulars will remember Bob partnering Shirley Sturgess on a Wednesday until his recent illness.  Our sympathies are with his wife Rita and the family.

Shirley tells me that the funeral will be held on Thursday 21st November at 11.30 at St John the Baptist's Church, Billesdon and thereafter at the Queens Head, Billesdon.

Margaret Butterworth - Chairman - 6th November 2019

On Table 6 Pink Section (Steve Francis/Linda Macfarlane v Sarah Gilbert/Lynda Dunn) this was incorrectly entered into the Bridgemates as 4♥-9 and accepted. This went unnoticed until after the session had finished. This is clearly wrong as everybody else is making at least 10 tricks. Steve has subsequently informed me that he thinks the correct contract was 4♥+1. It looks like North attempted to enter +1 for the number of tricks instead of 11. The Bridgemate interpretted this as 1 trick. As the score for 4♥-9 is -450 and the score for 4♥+1 is +450, we presume that E/W just saw the 450 and accepted the score. The corrected score has now been published.

Steve Wright - Tournament Secretary - 18th November 2019

On Table 2 Pink Section (Barrie Parker/John Summerhayes v Michael Ellerby/Brian Stockdale) this was incorrectly entered into the Bridgemates as 3♠ -6 and accepted. This went unnoticed until after the session had finished. This is clearly wrong as everybody else is making at least 9 tricks. Brian has subsequently informed me that he thinks the correct contract was 3♠ making 9 tricks. The corrected score has now been published.

Steve Wright - Tournament Secretary - 11th November 2019