The inaugural National nine-high Corwen Trophy was played on both BBO/RealBridge on Saturday 31 May with three pairs - Maureen Brinton & Judith Williams, Ian Marriott & Norna Hughes, Colin Lee & Peter Smith - representing Cornwall. 

 Maureen and Judith had a fantastic 73%+  first session, and despite an uncertain start to the second session, finished with some good boards to score an overall 61.6%. This placed them first out of 51 pairs - which was over 2% more than the second placed pair. They each were awarded four green points for their endeavours.

It was a remarkable performance from them, so richly deserved for a pair who have enthusiastically supported club, county and national level events in recent years.

The inter-counties teams of four Western league has just finished for the 2024/5 season, and our C team has convincing won its league. It won all seven of its matches, and finished an amazing 26 victory points ahead of the team finishing second!

Congratulations to the eleven people who played : Steven Clifton & David Clarke (4 matches); Peter Scott & Graham Ramsey (4 matches) ; Jan Keast & Janet Heath (2 matches) ; Heather Holder-Powell & John Golding (2 matches) ; Neil Harris & Suzanne Warring (1 match) ; Neil Harris & Henry Gompertz (1 match).

The team now qualifies for the one-day National Final in early June. This is a teams of eight event against the winners of the other four regional leagues, plus the winners of last year's national C team final.

Just six teams played in this fun event at Carnon Downs village hall on Sunday 11 May. Players played ten boards with each of the other three players in their team. Winners were Jan Keast, Janet Heath, Beverlie Horton and Martin Winters with +53 VPs which was 19 VPs ahead of the second team. Leading individual pair was Beverlie and Janet with nearly 68%.

There are currently nine bridge clubs in Cornwall that are affiliated to the English Bridge Union (EBU). They meet either online or face-to-face or both on a variety of weekday evenings.