Bridge news

The first of three weekends of the English Premier League has taken place, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent. The action was at three different venues in the Greater London area:

Division 1 at Franklin House; Division 2 at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club; and Division 3 at Richmond Bridge Club. The leading scores are as follows: Division 1: 1st David Mossop, Gunnar Hallberg, Justin Hackett, Jason Hackett, Phil King and Derek Patterson, 90.03 VPS; and 2nd Andrew Black, David Gold, Simon Cope, Peter Crouch, Andrew Mcintosh and Tom Paske, 88.79 VPS.

Division 2: 1st Paul Hackett, John Sansom, Dave Debbage and Croz Croswell, 95.29 VPS; and 2nd Joe Fawcett, Gillian Fawcett, David Burn, Ian Payn, Jim Grant and Stefan Lindfors, 81.69 VPS.

Division 3: 1st William Clennell, Dominic Cooke, Senthur Shanmugarasa, Kavinthan Vickneswaran, Theo Sinclair and Giorgio Provenza, 88.18 VPS; and 2nd Ewa Wieczorek, Yining Yang, Lawrence Wang and Charlie Bucknell, 83.37 VPS.

The second weekend will be in mid-october and the third weekend in early November.