With mixed fortunes on the day, two teams of 8 represented our county in round 1 of this competition on Saturday 5th July in the A & C Divisions. The A team had a bad morning but recovered well in the afternoon session to finish a respectable 3rd on 54 VP's with Paul Roberts & Julian Merrill top of the table on X-imps. The C Division only involved four counties so only three matches were to be played & our team finished 4th after struggling to recover from a heavy defeat to a strong Lancashire squad at the start. Thanks to all for taking part. Round 2 is scheduled for Saturday 16th August & kibitzing on Realbridge should be available - more details to follow on this but please contact the team organiser Chris Raymond ( drcjr56@gmail.com ) for any queries or if interested in taking part.

7 teams contested the Jim Davies Teams Trophy at Deva BC on Thursday 3rd July. The clear winners were the team of Paddy Murphy, Mark Weeks, Stuart Matthews & Alan Stephenson pictured here receiving  the trophy from the organiser Chris Raymond. Thanks to all for taking part and making the event an enjoyable success, to Deva acting as host club & to David Smith as a very able and amenable  TD.

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd August 2025

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Season 4 has now been completed – thanks to all teams for taking part. Congratulations to the division 1 winners who once again were team Liz & co (Liz Commins, David Stevenson, Simon Edwards, Alex Maddocks, Paddy Murphy, Mark Roderick & Tracy Sherman) who at the end were well ahead of Amber in 2^nd place. Division 2 winners were team Arrowe (Chris Wentworth, Tony Sutcliffe, Colin Nugent & Chris Whaley) with Cosmopolitans in 2^nd place.

Season 5 will start on 15^th Sept. New applications to join the league are always most welcome – we aim to offer all taking part a chance to play a friendly flexible and leisurely schedule of teams matches over the autumn / winter / spring. Master points are awarded for matches won (blue points for div 1). Even if you do not have a team but are still interested in taking part then we want to hear from you! Please contact Chris Raymond ( drcjr56@gmail.com )  for more information and application forms.

We had 24 pairs competing in the John Armstrong Swiss pairs competition on Saturday 17th May at Deva Bridge Club.  Ken Johnston directed the event for us.  Many congratulations to the winners Alex Smalley and Tom Slater (pictured with the trophy).   John Hampson and Barry Jones finished runners up with David Stevenson and Liz Commins in third place.

Sunday 27th July - start at 11.00 & approx finish 18.30

7 seven board matches  with generous prizes including one for non-experts

Altrincham Bridge Club, 134 Cecil Road, Hale, WA15 9NU.

More details & online entry forms: www.bridgewebs.com/manchesterevents