2024

Cretan Congress - October 2024

Congratulations to Catherine Thompson and Lealey Bridson on winning the Swiss Teams in the EBU overseas holiday congress in Crete.  Their team mates were Stuart Davies and Nichola Cockerill-Smith.

Isle Of Man Green Point Congress - September 2024

Congratulations to Catherine Thompson, Lesley Bridson, Janet and Ted Latham, who won the Congress Swiss Teams.

National Handicap Pairs - September 2024

Huge congratulations to Catherine Thompson and Lesley Bridson who came first in the whole country in the National Handicap Pairs, in aid of Cancer Research, on Sunday 8th September.

234 pairs were playing nationwide including 24 pairs from HBC.  Catherine and Lesley had a local score of 72.69% which came down to 64.03% nationally when their handicap was applied.

The Harrogate Spring Congress - February 2024

Congratulations to Rachel and Steve Smith who won the Really Easy Pairs on Friday and to Diane and Ron Lassiter and Justine Davies and Rebecca Pullan who came joint second.

2023

EBU Venetian Congress - October 2023 Our congratulations go to the winners of the Swiss Teams!! Lesley Bridson, Catherine Thompson and their fellow team members Stuart Davies and Nichola Cockerill-Smith from Bradford Bridge Club.

Congratulations to Janet Latham

The Dimmie Fleming Award is awarded by the EBU for voluntary service to county bridge and the EBU.

Janet was presented with the award by Jeremy Dhondy, chairman of the EBU.  Jeremy said that Janet had served on the Yorkshire Management Committee for nearly 20 years as Treasurer, Assistant Secretary and Secretary.  Also he said that she was a Yorkshire representative at the EBU shareholders' meetings and at Northern Bridge League meetings, as well as coordinating selection for the Northern Bridge League for Yorkshire and helping to regenerate interest in Yorkshire competitions that were falling by the wayside.

The last time a Yorkshire member received this award was in 2010.