Some spectacular photos taken of a hailstorm at two local greens on Tuesday.

With all leagues now publishing their 2024 fixtures we can complete our Year-On-Year table of teams in leagues with good news and bad news.

There are 67 entries in the county's 2024 Hutchinson Cup and 62 of them will play in the Qualifying Round. Full draw.

Only 24 teams have entered the 2024 Yorkshire Cup but there is plenty of local interest in the competition as the qualifying round is drawn.

12 teams are in the Senior Men's Yorkshire Inter-District One-Day competition and a Yorkshire Cup update.

The 2024 Yorkshire Merit is formed of 2 qualifying days and one Finals Day all of which will be played over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.

The fixtures for the BCGBA Senior Ladies competition brought a reaction from Dave Parkin as Yorkshire meet Champions Shropshire on Day 1.

The full listing of dates for all the BCGBA competitions for the coming season has now been released.

The last two winners of this national title meet in the opening round of the 2024 competition as Yorkshire take on the current Champions.

The most prestigious team competition in Yorkshire is the 125-years old Yorkshire Cup which is struggling to survive.

The webmaster is on holiday so new postings may be scarce and intermittent but we will be back refreshed and ready for more bowling action.

Some more of the papers to be discussed and voted on at the Yorkshire CCGBA AGM have been circulated.

Your copy of the long (3 years) awaited financial statement from Yorkshire CCGBA has now been circulated and can be downloaded here.

The Home & Away issue of fixtures in the Saturday League was resolved for another year by a vote to stay playing on neutral greens.

Bradford CGBA has proposed that the Yorkshire Cup and Henry Taylor Cups should both be open to female bowlers with no restrictions.

A date and agenda for the Yorkshire AGM and will they be publishing their accounts and balance sheet for the first time in 4 years?

A selection of recent news items, some updates, a recent photo of the defunct Waterloo BC and what is happening this week in the Winter Lge.

Following Marc Bircumshaw's resignation the BCGBA has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer who predictably is not to everyone's liking.

It is not often (I'm guessing here) that The Economist carries a long story about bowling but it sounds like the vultures are circling to me

Clubs may be interested in this series of guides and free webinairs on how to run a bowling club produced on behalf of the BCGBA.