Bridge news

Northern Ireland has had to announce a revised team for the first weekend of the 2018 Camrose near Belfast writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent. The team will now be:

Rex Anderson and David Greenwood, Ian Hamilton and Sam Hall and Paul Tranmer and Wayne Somerville. The non-playing captain is John Ferguson. All teams have now appointed a non-playing captain. The remainder are Sandy Duncan (Scotland), David Burn (England), Alan Stephenson (Wales), Grainne Barton (Ireland) and Diarmuid Reddan (Contract Bridge Association of Ireland, Irish second team).