Previous Updates
22/12/07: Lady Milne trials. Results and report.
21/12/07: Youth page - dates for your diaries
21/12/07: Damiani's Christmas message
21/12/07: A few errors in the table of past results corrected (corrections in red), and some additions.
5/12/07: Table of results of WBU competitions going back to 1959. Please tell me about any errors! And do you have any more to add?
26/11/07: Result of the Veterans' Pairs
22/11/07: Lady Milne Trial arrangements
22/11/07: Calendar updates - Executive meeting in July 2008 moved to 20/7/08, new dates for 2008 Trials and Invitation Pairs.
19/11/07: Results of the WBU Swiss Teams at Llangollen held on 16-18 November in the Royal International Pavilion (Green point awards added 22/11/07)
16/11/07: Result of the Men's Pairs held on Saturday November 3rd 2007 in Colwyn Bay
12/11/07 Results of the 2007 Porthcawl Congress
7/11/07: Brochure now available for NWBA Spring Congress in Llandudno on 5-6 April 2008. A 2-day green-pointed Swiss Teams.
7/11/07: Calendar for 2008 on revised to remove Open Trial dates - new dates will be found to avoid clashes with Beijing
7/11/07: PDJ is now NPC for the 1st Camrose
7/11/07: Captain's
report on the Junior European Championships,
25/10/07: Camrose team for first weekend in January announced
22/10/07: WBU Trials information, including results of final trial
22/10/07: Results of North Wales GP Swiss Pairs
22/10/07: East Wales Congress 16-17 February 2008. Brochure now available.
22/10/07: Update to the piece on Max Powell with photo
16/10/07: Line-ups for the trials now known
16/10/07: Two old newsletters (winter 1999 and spring 2000) added
15/10/07: Two additions to 2007-8 calendar (Men's Pairs, Pau)
11/10/07: Tidied up the Publications page
11/10/07: Put a pointer at the very interesting booklets about WBU appeals on the TD page
11/10/07: Fixed broken links on the Members page
11/10/07: The final (I hope) version of the 2007 Journal now up.
11/10/07: Various updates to area and club information
9/10/07: Updated Competition information to fit new Journal
9/10/07: Sad news about Max Powell
1/10/07: Results of the first trials weekend
1/10/07: September WBU Magazine and associated Bidding Competition posted
24/9/07: Results of the Welsh Invitation Pairs
24/9/07, 1/10/07: More about Men's events added
17/9/07: Pre-trial results
12/9/07: More details added about the North Wales Green Point Swiss Pairs
7/9/07: Results of the Welsh Foursomes
7/9/07: New contact for Cardiff bridge club
7/9/07: Corrected venue of Camrose 2 in 2008
7/9/07: Changed probable date for Aberystwyth congress in 2008
9/807, 6/8/07 and 3/8/07: More improvements to the Contacts page
9/8/07: The Men's Pairs date is still not decided. It will not be the date previously notified here.
Results of the WBU Green-point events (Saturday Pairs, Sunday Teams) in Cwmbran on August 4th and 5th. (Slight change to MPs on Pairs table.)
7/8/07: Results of the Aberystwyth Congress held on July 28th and 29th
6/8/07: Brochure now available for the Llangollen teams in November
25/7/07: News about Men's events.
25/7/07: Notice about Orange Book updates
17/7/07: Picture of the Llandudno winners added
17/7/07: Results of the Mid-Wales Congress on July 14th & 15th
12/7/07: Results of the WBU Swiss Pairs in Llandudno on July 7th & 8th
2/7/07: Brochure now available for the Welsh Foursomes on September 1st & 2nd at the David Lloyd Centre in Cardiff
2/7/07: Results of the National Inter-Club Teams-of-8
2/7/07: More detail on Youth events in Youth page
24/7/07: Contacts page brought more up-to-date
2/7/07: New secretary for Llanelli club. Email address error fixed 9/7/07
16/6/07: Brochure for the WBU Swiss Pairs here at last
10/6/07: Results of the Swansea Charity Bridge Event on 8 - 10 June (on their site)
5/6/07: Results of the Ladies' Weekend, pairs and teams for the Ladies' Welsh Cup
4/6/07: Brochure now available for the Porthcawl Congress on 9th to 11th November
30/5/07: Brochure now available for the green-pointed events in Cwmbran on August 4th & 5th
29/5/07: Results of the WBU Seniors Congress and Swiss Pairs
24/5/07: New CEO appointed
21/5/07: Results of the Perry Shield and Spickett Bowl
21/5/07: Results of the Webber Cup
8/5/07: Results of the May Holiday Congress in Cwmbran
Brochures are available for the Mid-Wales (13-15 July) and Aberystwyth (27-29 July) congresses.
14/6/07: New venue for Brecon club
2/6/07: New secretary of Castle Bridge Club
30/5/07: Small errors in Senior pairs results corrected
23/5/07: Session time changed for Tenby club
21/5/07: New contact details for West Wales
30/4/07: Area teams result added to North Wales page
30/4/07: Recent area results added to Mid-Wales page. And the area constitution.
27/4/07: Rhayader bridge club has affiliated to the WBU. Welcome!
16/4/07: Photos added to Lady Milne pages
13/4/07: The Calendar has been updated and split into different files for each year.
4/4/07: Minutes of the Council Meeting held on 25th March 2007. This meeting decided: new arrangements for the ladies' and mens' events; not to hold the Autumn simultaneous pairs; new Masterpoint ranks; to move the Welsh Foursomes (now probably in Cardiff on Sept 1/2).
3/4/07: Results of the North Wales Spring Congress in Llandudno
23/3/07: MWBA secretary changed
18/3/07: Fixed Dolgellau contact details
1/3/07: Added two early newsletters previously missing
19/3/07: Result of the Portland Pairs (Wales heat)
18/3/07: A report on the Junior Camrose, by Simon Richards. Photo added 19/3/07
11/3/07: Result of the National Open Pairs
11/3/07: A report on the Peggy Bayer, with pictures, by Keith Sharp (npc)
11/3/07: Another report by Patrick Shields, on the second Camrose weekend.
7/3/07: List of Junior events added to Youth page.
5/3/07: Second Camrose weekend. The Camrose Trophy was completed last weekend in Scotland. Wales finished a very respectable third. The very strong Republic of Ireland team retained the trophy, and a strong English team were second. The Welsh team was Tim Rees & Filip Kurbalija, Paul Denning & Patrick Shields, Gary & Dafydd Jones, with Peter Garner-Gray as NPC.
23/2/07: The Publications page has been updated, and all the WBU Newsletters from August 2001 are now on-line. Thank you Laura!
Information sheet added about membership and fees.
The home youth internationals were held on February 16-18 2007 in Limerick. Results.
Report on the Camrose weekend by Patrick Shields added 17/1/07
First
Camrose weekend. The first half of the 2007
home internationals was held on 5-7 January near Oxford, with all the matches
broadcast live on BBO.
The Welsh team (see photo)
was Tim Rees & Filip Kurbalija, Paul Denning & Patrick Shields, Mark
Roderick & Mike Best, with Jill Casey as NPC.
After this weekend, Wales lie 4th, ahead of both the Republic of Ireland and
Scotland, and just below Northern Ireland. The leaders are the Irish holders,
followed by England.
Draws for the later stages of the Welsh Cup and the Cambria Cup
20/2/07: Added some addresses
10/2/07: Corrected Portland Pairs venue
8/2/07: Added NWBA Spring Congress brochure. Fixed date error.
18/1/07: Date change for 2007 Invitation Pairs (now 22-23 September 2007)
8/12/06: More memorabilia. Please contribute more!
2/12/06: Renault pairs result updated with the outcome of the Paris final.
14/11/06: A few items of memorabilia from the early days of the WBU.
13/11/06: New and comprehensive page about International events
31/10/06: Youth page updated (pictures from Porthcawl added 15/11/06)
26/10/06: Tidied the home page a bit
26/10/06: Result of the Wales heat of the Renault Bridge Tour
23/10/06: Competitions page overhauled
19/10/06: Advice on finding accommodation for WBU events
17/10/06: Congress page overhauled
17/10/06: Welsh Junior Day, Cardiff 14th October 2006
16/10/06: Results of North Wales GP Swiss Pairs event
10/10/06: The membership page now points to up-to-date masterpoint information
6-12/10/06: All club data should now be up-to-date. Please tell me of any other errors.
5/10/06: The Calendar should now be up-to-date
