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ENGLISH TRIUMPH IN THE VALLEYS – BUT ONLY JUST - This year’s annual Home Countries Wheelchair Bowls Championships were held in Wales by hosts the Welsh Paraplegic and Tetraplegic Sports Association.....

EIBA FINAL - WHEELCHAIR WOMEN MAKE THEIR MARK - A Special Report by David Rhys-Jones : Still the Voice of Bowls

Not one but two. Yes – there were TWO wheelchair bowlers who had qualified for the 2010 EIBA National Finals – another first! Helen Wood and Vera Moore made it a wheelchair bowls double. Gone are the days when you might hear, “Oh look, there’s somebody playing in a wheelchair!”....

BWBA MATCHPLAY PAIRS 2010 - Tamworth and Distict IBC hosted the BWBA’s MatchPlay Pairs weekend recently. Wheelchair bowlers can pair up with a partner of their choice – disabled or not.....

BWBA v SOMERSET COUNTY PRESIDENT’S TEAM - The match was played at the instigation of Somerset County President Gerry Gridley who has been involved in bowls in Somerset for many a year and at all levels. Gerry is the first President of the newly unified County Bowling Association....

SUSSEX COUNTY INDOOR BOWLING ASSOCIATION BREAKS NEW GROUND - At its recent Annual General Meeting SCIBA appointed a wheelchair bowler as their Deputy Vice President for the forthcoming season 2010 / 2011....

AS IT’S SUMMER - LET’S HAVE SOME FESTIVAL NEWS - Over recent years, Summers have become increasingly full of music festivals – Glastonbury, Reading, V, etc but early Summer is the time for bowls festivals; notably at Scarborough and at Bodwellyan Castle, North Wales. These events are popular with wheelchair bowlers....

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The BWBA has close links with Nationwide Bowler and has its own dedicated section of Wheelchair Bowls News. The articles written for the magazine are included in the next few pages in full.

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