NORTHERN NEWS 2005
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6/10/05
Bill Attwood died this afternoon.

Bill collapsed with pneumonia nearly 2 weeks ago and has been in the intensive care unit at Northallerton hospital since then.

Bill , a member of Morecambe Bay PC, was a founder member of Northern in 1998 and was the Development Officer for the West of the Region for 4 of the next 5 years. He was a regular player at Northern tournaments and was a member of the Northern Region squad several times including as recently as Brean this year when he played as a fourth player for Northern 2.
Despite having a lung removed several years ago due to lung cancer and at that time being given only a few months to live Bill continued to play and to be very sociable and will be sadly missed.

1/10/05
New clubs. (contact details on the clubs and clubs map pages)

The Woodstock Pairs had 3 pairs from Northern's newest club - Culcheth PC. This was the first Northern tournament for most of them but 1 pair had a successful day getting to the final (details on the results page).
The tournament also had 4 pairs from Burnage Rugby club, all playing their first Northern tournament. Burnage might be the next club to join Northern.

18/9/05
The Northern squad at the Inter Regional Championships emphatically confirmed Northern's rise by finishing 4th in Division 1.

The aim had been to make 6th place in order to avoid relegation back to Division 2 so 4th was a major success.
We were even level on number of wins with 3rd place but had a worse points difference.
In 2003 when we were in division 1 for the first time we were demoted with 38 wins from 108 games. This time we won 57 from 108.

A link to the full results is available on the results page.

31/5/05
A new club has now started at Bishopthorpe in York.

The Marcia in Bishopthorpe has had a small temporary terrain for a few months but they have now finished their new 13m by 12 m terrain.
Contact details are available on the clubs page (via regional contacts).

28/5/05
The rise of Northern continues at the National Singles.

2 Northern players reached the semi finals of the national singles then had to play each other. That was won by Luke Howard (Mistral) who beat Angie Gaughan (Westow). Unfortunately Luke then lost in a close final against Sofianne Lachani.
 

22/5/05
Following quickly on from the Ladies the region has another GB player in Marcus Hilton (Unattached) who is part of the new GB1 team.

Marcus plus Neil Dobbins and Paul Bond from Wales won the International qualifier competition at Cardiff for the top 16 teams from the Grand Prix series. As GB1 they will be one of the 3 GB teams (not including the ladies) at the North Sea tournament in Cardiff on 25/26th June. They will also represent GB at the World Championships in Belgium between September 21st and 25th.

15/5/05
The all Northern triple of Lisa Hoy (Wigginton), Angie Gaughan (Westow) & Chris Best (Wigginton) are the 2005 British Ladies Champions.

They had a very long and difficult day at Loughton in Essex but after 7 games and nearly 12 hours they won the final.
More details of the scores are available on the BPF website (see the web links page).

Lisa, Angie & Chris will now represent GB at the North Sea tournament in Cardiff on 25/26th June and also at the European Ladies Championship in Denmark on 6th and 7th August.