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Even three weeks after hearing his wrist snap when he fell on it while playing golf, Nick Brett was hopeful that competing at the World Indoor Championships at Potters would be on his horizon. "I had just walked off the green where it…
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Five times Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games representative Barbara Cameron says she’s ‘bowled over’ at being honoured with a BEM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The 58-year-old staff nurse at Belfast City Hospital who plays for…
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Margaret Smith, who has been involved in disability bowls for more than 25 years in significant and influential roles that have had worldwide impact, has been awarded an MBE. She was so shocked that she initially thought it was a scam…
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England's Ellen Falkner has been honoured with an MBE for services to the sport of Lawn Bowls in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The list is usually published in June to mark the monarch's official birthday but was delayed this summer so…
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The British Isles Women’s Bowls Council (BIWBC) has agreed a new-look for its international events to increase awareness of the women’s game in the UK and closer align with the formats at world events. The cancellation of all…
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BORN 27 October, 1931 - DIED 26 August, 2020 Bowlers everywhere will be saddened to learn that David John Bryant, CBE, an iconic figure in the sport of bowls, passed away in a Care Home in Clevedon (Somerset) yesterday. He was…
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The WBT announced today that the 2020 Scottish International Open has been cancelled in light of Covid-19. A statement from Richard Maddieson said: "The World Bowls Tour have been monitoring the Global Covid-19 Pandemic very closely…
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Nancie Colling, for decades a formidable presence on the scene of international women's bowls, has died in Seaton at the age of 101, passing away peacefully in her sleep at the Manor House Care Home in that pretty South Devon coastal…
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