EBU promotions and congratulations to:

Paul Wilcox - County Master

Sue Vallis - Area Master

Richard Goble - Master

EBU promotion grades at this level work the same as army ranks.  You would think that a major general sits higher than a mere general but in fact the former sits two places below the latter.  So Richard is the big cheese among these three.  Higher than master the rank titles become increasingly exotic and Richard is moving up the pecking order at such a rate of knots that the EBU will soon have to invent a whole new lexicon to describe his celestial wonderfulness.