14 August 2010 at 13:00

Clive's Bike Ride

Hi,

I am going to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats between 5th and 17th September 2010.  I will cycle a total of about 940 miles and climb over 35,000 feet.  I will be aiming to cycle an average of 80 miles a day.  I will be trying to post details of each day on my facebook event, search for me if you want to have a look; the links below are attached to this event also.  Rough route details are given at the end.

I will be raising money for Epilepsy Action, British and Breast Cancer Care.  All of these charities support people who suffer from diseases that I have been personally touched by. 

My wife has Epilepsy, she was diagnosed in 1986, and she has had much support from this charity especially when we started a family.  She is now controlled on her drugs and has been fit free whilst awake for several years and has been able to get back to driving. 

Epilepsy Action is the national charity supporting sufferers and their families.  Money raised will help fund their freephone and e-mail helplines, as well as research into attitudes about epilepsy.  Epilepsy Action is celebrating its diamond jubilee this year, although when founded in 1950 it was call the British Epilepsy Association.  Its aims include improving the quality of life for epilepsy sufferers and improving epilepsy services.  It also raises awareness of the condition.

My father suffered with lung problems before his death in 2004.  In 2006 my mother was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and has had a mastectomy and reconstruction since.  She now is free of the disease and will be supporting me on my ride.

Please ‘gift aid’ your donation if you are a UK tax payer; as the charity will get extra money from the government at no cost to you.

I will be circulating sponsorship forms around and will have some at my desk if you wish to send me an e-mail.  Alternatively I have set up three pages on ‘JustGiving’ (one for each charity).  The links are below.

http://www.justgiving.co.uk/Clive-Holland-epilepsy

http://www.justgiving.co.uk/Clive-Holland-lung

http://www.justgiving.co.uk/Clive-Holland-cancer

Alternatively search for me on the JustGiving home page.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

Route

Sunday 5th              Drive to Land's End, Cycle to Redruth area ~35 miles

Monday 6th              Redruth to Tiverton ~100 miles

Tuesday 7th             Tiverton to Gloucester ~100 miles

Wednesdaay 8th       Gloucester to Derby ~100 miles

Thursday 9th            Derby to Altrincham ~70 miles

Friday 10th                  Altrincham to Kendal ~80 miles

Saturday 11th            Kendal to Dumfries ~80 miles

Sunday 12th               Dumfries to Kilwinning ~80 miles

Monday 13th              Kilwinning to Tarbet (Loch Lomond) ~60 miles

Tuesday 14th             Tarbet to Fort William ~60 miles

Wednesady 15th      Fort Williamn to Tain ~80 miles

Thursday 16th           Tain to John O'Groats ~80 miles

Regards,

Clive R. Holland

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01332 246995

e-mail - clive.holland@rolls-royce.com

02 August 2010 at 19:44

Scarborough Congress

A few Derbyshire players were at the EBU Northern Congress at Scarborough, but with limited success.

Alex Hogg & Cedric Cockcroft were in the team which won the Teams Qualifying on the Friday afternoon, finishing 5th in the evening final.

Don Smedley & Ron McEwan playing with Giles Foster & Derek Markham failed to qualify, but comfortably won their evening Session.

 For full details,  click here

15 June 2010 at 14:57

Pachabo 2010

Derbyshire finished just below average in this year's Pachabo Cup. The Pachabo Cup is the EBU's County Teams of Four Championship. The winners of the DCBA's Eric White Cup represent the County in this competition.

For full details, Click here.

19 April 2010 at 17:51

National Pairs Final

Alex Hogg & Peter Kelly finished a commendable fifth in the EBU National Pairs Final. Our President, Wendy Watson, playing with Frank Littlewood from Sheffield won the last session with 63% to finish 10th overall. If you look closely you will find another Derbyshire pair well down the list.

For details, click here

22 March 2010 at 10:41

National Pairs - Regional Finals

Wendy Watson, playing with Frank Littlewood, qualified to play in the Finals of the National Pairs.

They were 8th in the Bradford heat of the Regional Finals. For details, click here

Randy Curzon & Ron McEwan qualified 6th in the Solihul heat. For details, click here

22 February 2010 at 10:01

Overseas Congress in Madeira

Congratulations to Liz Hall & David Taylor who won the Open Pairs in Madeira with a fantastic 71.53%

For Details, click here.

27 January 2010 at 14:13

WBF Charity Pairs

Cedric Cockroft & Ron McEwan led the field in the Derby Bridge Club heat of the WBF Charity Pairs on Tuesday, 26th January. Pat Smith and David Taylor were runners up. Derby Bridge Club donated the table money to the Charity.

For full details, click here. 

 

31 July 2009 at 20:51

Aberystwyth Congress

David & Mary Marshall were 2nd and Peter & Sheila Kelly 4th in the pairs at the Aberystwyth Congress at the weekend. They joined up together for the Teams and finished 2nd, I think.

Full results coming shortly.

29 July 2009 at 09:42

BGB Simultaneous Pairs

Mo Logan & David Briggs did well in Tuesday's Bridge Great Britain Simultanous Pairs. They were top in the Derby Bridge Club heat,  with 67.15%, and lying 15th out of over 2000 pairs, countrywide.

Brian Woodall & Richard Hodgkins were not far behind with 65.22% and are 38th overall.

For details, click here

05 June 2009 at 18:09

Success at Harrogate

Congratulations to DCBA President Wendy Watson and John Squires who won the YBS (Non-Regional Master) Trophy in the Championship Pairs at the recent Harrogate Congress.  They also qualified for the final and came 14th overall, a creditable achievement in a very strong field.

22 May 2009 at 08:05

Norfolk Swiss Teams

Malcolm Young's team continues to do well, finishing second in the Norfolk Swiss Teams. The rest of the team were Jeff Calladine, Alan Kenny,  & Richard Horsley.

For details, click here

11 May 2009 at 13:13

Silver Plate

 

This year Derbyshire has had several successes in Midland and National events, including winning the Porter trophy, the Foster Cups, the Macfarlane Cup. However the zenith of acievement came when Richard Edward's team won the Silver Plate.

11 May 2009 at 11:32

 

Malcom Caporn, new vice-chairman of the DCBA, presents his gift of a silver punchbowl to this year's winners of the Division Two DCBA teams of eight competition (Matlock A), captained by Randy Curzon.

11 May 2009 at 11:27

DCBA AGM

 

Wendy presenting the Smedley Salver to Liz Hall & David Taylor.

11 May 2009 at 11:20

DCBA AGM

 Wendy Watson being inaugurated as the new DCBA president by DCBA chairman John Sowter.

27 April 2009 at 11:27

National Pairs Final

Alex Hogg & Peter Kelly were 4th in the final of the 2009 National Pairs.

For details on the EBU link, click here

20 April 2009 at 14:31

BGB Sim Pairs

Jim Parker & Tony Wakelin were top in the DCBA's heat of the BGB Simultaneou pairs on Wednesday, 15th April. Although they had 'only' 60.65% in the Derby session, that was upgraded to 64% nationally. They finished 69th out of 2545 pairs.

For details, click here

13 April 2009 at 11:07

Buxton Success

Derbyshire's Alex Hogg was in the winning team at the Buxton Easter Congress.

For details go to the EBU results link on click here

23 March 2009 at 11:38

National Pairs Regional Qualifying

Alex Hogg & Peter Kelly have qualified for the final of the National Pairs to be held at Hinckley at the end of April.

Other Derbyshire pairs who took part failed to qualify.

For details of the Solihull heat click here

09 March 2009 at 11:41

Silver Plate Winners

Congratulations to Richard Edward's team who have just won the 2008 BGB Silver Plate.

Richard's team were, left to right in the photo: Don Smedley, John Griffin, Bob Ross holding the 'plate', Alex Hogg trying to hide, Peter Kelly and 'Himself'

To view details of the 7 teams they beat , click here.

04 March 2009 at 12:26

Howard wins in Australia

Howard Melbourne's globe trotting paid off again when he won the Open Pairs Championship at the Gold Coast Congress in Queensland, Australia.

For details of the Pairs Final results click here

For a photo of Howard and his partner, click here.

For a link to the Congress programme, click here.

31 January 2009 at 09:41

2009 NICKO

Derby A have reached the 4th Round of the 2009 National Inter-Club Knockout Championship.

They were away to Bramhall A on Friday, 30th January, 2009, winning by 42 IMPs.

For details of the draw, click here.

31 January 2009 at 09:40

2008 Silver Plate

Good luck to Richard Edwards' team which plays the final of the 2008 Silver Plate on March 8th against Catherine Curtis' Cambridgeshire team.

For draw details, click here

20 January 2009 at 07:47

National Swiss Teams

Derbyshire's Richard Edwards was in the team which finished 2nd in the National Swiss Teams at the weekend.

Alex Hogg & Peter Kelly were in the 13th team, Paul Madden & John Squibb 15th.

For full details, click here.

30 December 2008 at 23:23

Blackpool End-of-Year Congress

Derbyshire's Alex Hogg was in the team which won the Swiss Teams Championship at the Blackpool Congress. Howard Melbourne didn't win anything but finished a respectable 9th in the Mixed Pairs, 6th in the Swiss Pairs and 6th in the Swiss teams.

For full details, click here.

18 December 2008 at 20:55

Gold Cup Congress

At last weekend's Gold Cup Congress held in the superb Peebles Hydro Hotel, Derbyshire's Judy Lomas & David Wright finished 11th out of 148 in the main Pairs event.

They started off rather indifferently but won their last 6 matches to overtake many internationals.

That other well known Derbyshire pair Amanda Grimsey & John Sowter didn't fair quite so well, claiming that with the whiskey starting to flow at 5 o'clock (in the morning) they were somewhat handicapped. Amanda admitted that she had skipped the generous portions of haggis at the breakfast buffet - a pity - haggis is a well known hangover cure.

For full details, click here.

02 December 2008 at 10:23

Success in York

In the Ryedale Pairs on Sunday at New Earswick, Wendy Watson and John Squires won the qualifying session with a huge 66% score and finished a creditable 7th in the final.

18 November 2008 at 07:59

NICKO

After a tough tussle, Derby A (John Griffin, Don Smedley, Stephen Lally & Ron McEwan) prevailed over Sheffield B in the 1st round of the National Inter Club Knock Out (NICKO).

16 November 2008 at 12:00

Ashover Swiss Pairs

On Saturday, 15th November, 2008, Pat and Alan Smith were winners of the John Partington Salver at the Ashover Swiss Pairs.

Click here for all the results

04 November 2008 at 10:37

Success in Lancashire

Congratulations to Wendy Watson, John Squires and Randy & Doreen Curzon who finished in a very creditable 5th place at the Lancashire Congress Swiss Teams last weekend.  It was a very strong field.  Well done.

27 October 2008 at 13:05

Malvern Congress

Congratulations to the pure Derbyshire Team of Malcolm Young, Alan Kenny, Richard Horsley and Jeff Calladine who have won the Teams of Four event at the 2008 Malvern congress.

They won on a split tie, seeing off 71 lesser teams.

For full details, click here.

15 October 2008 at 10:01

Jubilee Cup

The Derby Bridge Club Championship for the Jubilee Cup has been won by Richard Hodgkins & Chris Rodgers  with a fine 63% score. Pat & Alan Smith were close behind with 62%

For full details, click here

To view winners being presented with the Cup by the president, Arnold Chandler, click here

22 September 2008 at 11:01

Edgar Foster Cups

Derbyshire entered four pairs to play in the above event at Staffordshire showground. Each of the Midland counties entered several pairs and although none of our pairs finished in the top three positions, our overall placings meant that we won the team scoring event. Congratulations to Liz Hall & David Taylor, Annice & Howard Morton, Ken & Fay Stanyon, Ron McEwan & David Marshall.

04 August 2008 at 10:44

Scarborough Congress

There was an extremely close finish to the Premier Final of the Multiple Teams Championships on the Friday of the EBU's Northern Summer Congress in Scarborough. Eventually the winners by 1 IMP were Clive Owen's team (John Holland, Derbyshire's Ron McEwan & Giles Foster).  Clive's team also won last year with John Armstrong in Giles' place

Malcolm Young's team (Alan Kenny, Jeff Calladine & Richard Horsley) were 2nd in the Premier Final, only that 1 MP behind.

In the Pairs, John Griffin and Gary Watson were the best Derbyshire Pair, finishing 13th out of 176 pairs. Howard and Annice Morton were 22nd equal with Ron and Giles.

For full results of the Teams and Pairs, Click here

26 June 2008 at 16:50

DCBA 2008 Indivdual Championship

Pym Berry has won the DCBA's 2008 Individual Championship for the Gerry Fletcher Cup.

Pym averaged an excellent 64.6% to just see off 2nd placed Clive Warbrick's 63.9%. Margaret Avery was in 3rd place with 57.6%.

Full details will be coming shortly.

16 June 2008 at 11:13

Pachabo Cup

Derbyshire finished a reasonable 8th out of 28 teams in the National County Teams of Four championship for the Pachabo Cup.

Derbyshire were represented by Paul Madden's Eric White winning team of himself, John Squibb, Stephen Lally and Ron McEwan.

For full details, click here

01 June 2008 at 10:43

Corwen Trophy

Dave Briggs and Jim Tomlinson finished a very creditable 4th out of 110 in the Corwen Trophy. This Annual Event pits the top pairs from each County against each other over two days. Alex Hogg and Peter Kelly were Derbyshire's other representatives, finishing 34th.

For full details, click here

06 May 2008 at 11:50

Beck Cup Oxfordshire

Congratulations to Malcolm Young, Alan Kenny, Miranda Vinecombe and Gary Watson who won the Beck Cup at Oxford on Sunday.

The three competing Oxfordshire teams had had to play in a preliminary event to qualify and a further nine teams from visiting counties also participated.  This was an excellent result for Derbyshire.

 

21 April 2008 at 13:44

National Pairs Final

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21 April 2008 at 11:06

County Match - Third Team Friendly v Sheffield

Congratulations to our third team who beat Sheffield and district in an exciting match yesterday.  After losing throughout, Derbyshire had a good final set, winning the match 186 - 174.

Well done to Mo Logan, John Reavy, John Squires, Wendy watson, Peter Dodson, Derek George, Adrian Pilling and Beth Wilson.  Congratulations to Mike Douglas, Paul Knighton, Clive Warbrick and Ray Jolland, all of whom were playing in their first county match.  A full breakdown of the results will follow later.

11 April 2008 at 13:29

BGB Spring Sim Pairs

Margaret Avery and Gitte Lee took the top spot with 67.59% in the DCBA heat of the BGB Spring Sim Pairs on Wednesday, 9th April. Ray Jolland and Clive Warbrick were 2nd.

For full details: Click here

The Derby Bridge Club heat was on Tuesday, 8th April.

Chris & Mike Douglas were 1st with 62.92%, closely followed by John Sowter & Amanda Grimsey.

For full details: Click here

19 March 2008 at 10:56

National Pairs Regional Finals

Derbyshire's usual suspects did well in the Regional Finals on Sunday, 16th March at Solihull.

Alex Hogg and Peter Kelly were 2nd, Don Smedley and John Griffin were 4th. Both pairs qualify to play in the National Pairs Final on 19th and 20th April.

Click here for full details.

Those of you who spotted that Garry Watson won the event will be disappointed to learn that our Gary Watson spells his name slightly differently.

I'm not sure how many qualified as yet, but Jim Tomlinson and Dave Briggs and Liz Hall and David Taylor finished above average, although they will probably just miss out on qualifying for the final.

10 March 2008 at 11:34

Non-Bridge, but significant Derbyshire News

Congratulations to The Matlock Band who won their section in Midlands Area Brass Band Contests on Saturday, 8th March, 2008. Their Musical Director, Roger Jepson, was presented with the winner's Trophy, a banner to commemorate the event and £200 cash (not vouchers).

24 February 2008 at 15:37

Master Points Race 2007

For those of you interested in the Derbyshire Master Point Rankings for the 2007 Season:

Click here Click here to see where you finished in your rank in Derbyshire

Click here Click here for the EBU pages with all the results for other counties, Gold Point Rankings, etc.

02 December 2007 at 19:08

San Fransisco Fall Nationals

John Armstrong has finished well in the Reisinger B-A-M Teams at the Fall Nationals in San Francisco. Playing with Paul Hacket, Jack Mizel and Brian Senior, they finished 8th, not far behind the winners led by James Cayne.

The fall nationals last for 10 days, with literally thousands taking part at the same time, including dozens of the world's best players.

Click here for details of the final stages of the Riesinger.

Click here for bulletins on the other NABC events.

Click here for the top 200 Master Points Awards in San Fransisco (over 6000 players received master points, the lowest award being 0.10 MPs).

The names at the top (and in 181st place) gives you an idea of the quality of the field.

28 November 2007 at 10:47

Tollemache Qualifying

Derbyshire had a disappointing result in this year's Tollemache qualifying session at the weekend, finishing 8th in their section (A).

Click here for details.

05 November 2007 at 07:01

Matlock Swiss Pairs

On Saturday, 3rd November, Randy and Doreen Curzon won the Matlock Swiss Pairs for the John Partington Memorial Trohpy.

Click here for all the results

Click here for photo (John's daughter, Elizabeth, presenting the plate to the winners)

05 October 2007 at 12:12

Hubert Phillips

Mary Marshall's team has reached the fourth round of the Hubert Phillps Bowl. They overcame Tom Gisborne's team from Sheffield by 2,800.

For full results click here.

 

05 October 2007 at 12:11

Gold Cup

John Armstrong's team has reached the last eight of the 2007 Gold Cup.

For full details click here.

15 August 2007 at 11:49

Brighton Congress

Derbyshire's John Armstrong had another fine result at the weekend. Playing with Peter Crouch he finished in second place to Tom Hanlon & Hugh McGann in the Brighton Congress Swiss Pairs. In the final round at table 1, they needed a 15-5 result to win overall, but unfortunately could manage only 12-8.  

For full results click here.

28 July 2007 at 08:07

Scarborough Congress

John Armstrong's team won the Teams Championship at the Scarborough Congress on Friday, 26th July 2007. John's team-mates were Ron McEwan, John Holland and Clive Owen.

For full results click here.

04 June 2007 at 08:59

Corwen Trophy

Jim Tomlinson and Ian Hall finished a creditable 11th in the Corwen Trophy at the week end.

Other Derbyshire pairs finished 14th and 40th.

The Corwen Trophy is an annual national pairs event between winners and runners up of County Pairs Championships.

Don Smedley and John Griffin won it two years ago.

Full Results here

28 April 2007 at 14:01

Seniors KO

Derbyshire's Richard Edwards has reached the final of the National Seniors Knock Out for the Gerald Faulkner Salver. He and his partner Bob Ross are playing in Bill Townsend's team with Tony McNiff and Giles Foster.

They will have to play either Paul Hackett or Victor Silverstone in the final. The winners will be asked to represent England Seniors in the European Championships.

22 April 2007 at 09:24

National Pairs Final

Alex Hogg and Peter Kelly finished 4th in the final of the National pairs.

 Full Results here

If you look closely you will see Don and John lurking there somewhere.