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Cantor Cup

For beginners and improving novices a single session pairs event at Bramhall Village Club on Sunday 22nd Feb 2026.

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Camrose

The first weekend of this year's home internationals was on Jan 9-11th in Northern Ireland.

John Holland and Alan Mould played for England with Frances Hinden, Graham Osborne, Neil Rosen and John Atthey.  Michael Byrne was non-playing captain.  England finished second to Ireland, the second weekend is in March.  John and Alan were the best of the English pairs, finishing second overall in the cross imp rankings.

Manchester Congress

The annual congress was held at the Airport Hotel on 3rd-4th January.

41 pairs contested the pairs event on the Saturday, 17 teams played on Sunday and 13 non-expert pairs pairs played for the Kevin Comrie Trophy on the Sunday.

Congratulations to all winners, especially Adrian Thomas and John Hassett who won both the pairs and, with John Holland and Jackie Pye, the teams.

Adrian and John won the first session of the pairs and then scored 57% in the second session to hold off a late surge by Daniel Winter and Gideon Harvey who finished second and won the Men's prize.  Kath Nelson and Jeff Smith won the Mixed prize and Karen Reissman and Irene Davies the Women's prize.

The teams was run as a complete all play all over two sessions.  Adrian, John, Jackie and John won well ahead of Michael Byrne, Jovi Smederevac, Alan Mould and Gary Hyett.

The single session Kevin Comrie event was won by Chris and Tammy Lam with a good score of 63% just ahead of Catherine Shelmerdine and Nigel Catterall, with Angela Petrouis and Yash Bansal third.

Full results are now on the Manchester events site.

The Player of the Year spreadsheet has been updated with the congress results.  John Hassett has a clear lead in the expert category; there is a three way tie in the non-expert category between Ann Thornton, Karen Reissmann and Irene Davies.

Thanks to Oliver Cowan for organising and to Jim Edwards and Brian Perry for directing.

Michael Byrne's congress quiz can be found here.  Quiz answers here.

Congratulations to Karen Reissmann and Gillian McMullan who won the quiz with a fine score of 52/64.  They win a fabulous selection of prizes.  In second place was 13 year old Bertie Mittra who wins slightly fewer fabulous prizes.

Chris and Tammy Lam with Kevin Comrie and director Brian Perry	Nigel Catterall and Christine Shelmerdine
Angela Petrouis and Yash Bansal
John Hassett and Adrian Thomas	Gideon Harvey and Daniel Winter
Karen Reissmann and Irene Davies	Kath Nelson and Jeff Smith
John Holland, Jackie Pye, John Hassett, Adrian Thomas	Gary Hyett, Alan Mould, Michael Byrne, Jovi Smederevac

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