I was born and grew up on the Isle of Man, before moving to Chester for university to study Psychology and Criminology. Upon completion of my degree, I started a temporary position with M&S Bank, the role was made permanent and I stayed for 8 years.
I came to the EBU after a career in IT journalism and computing and still do some writing in my spare time. I am married with 2 adult children, and live in Winchester, having moved from Nottingham.
I am a keen bridge player, have played at club and county level. I was County Tournament Director for Nottinghamshire for several years and now on the committee of Hants and Isle of Wight County Bridge Association.
I love discovering new things whether that is travelling and exploring, reading, listening to music, or getting out on a bicycle.
Born in Kent in 1959 I started playing aged 16 during the school holidays encouraged by my grandfather Lundie Rees, who ran a bridge club in Somerset and was one of the first to host P & O bridge cruises. I am a London stockbroker and commute from Tunbridge Wells where I have been playing bridge as one of my main hobbies since my teens, as well as enjoying anything to do with sport! I have decided to retire in 2019 to concentrate on more golf, travel and bridge.
I learnt to play bridge from a book by Terrance Reese when I was about 9. I played with a group of friends some of whose parents played. At secondary school I played in the school team but we never got further than the semi-finals of the Schools Cup.
Claire is originally from Newcastle but has lived in London for many years. In 2020, she gave up her role as Head of Maths in a large London prep school to tutor online - Maths and bridge. Claire learnt to play bridge originally over a lunch table in her previous career at the Bank of England but did not really take up the game until years later. She began actively playing in 2012 by first going along to duplicates at the Andrew Robson Bridge Club and avidly reading every bridge book she could find. Claire was soon addicted, playing bridge in every spare moment.
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An interview with Heather and family - English Bridge, April 2016
Lady Milne Trophy selections: 2017 2018 and 2020
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Lou is editor of English Bridge with effect from the February 2016 issue of the magazine. Lou is based in Somerset where she has a nomadic bridge school. She has been teaching for over eight years. She plays regularly at 'Lovely Langport' bridge club and occasionally at Yeovil, Taunton and Wells. Lou started her career working for the Financial Times, latterly for the newsletter department. In 1998 she was the launch editor of a 'rather dry' monthly magazine called Asian Infrastructure which continued to occupy her for about 10 years.
Chris is the owner of Danby Advertising.
Danby Advertising started in 2004 offering advertising sales, design and marketing services for the national journal for Amateur Radio in the UK, RadCom magazine. Chris manages advertising within the magazine and liaising with many companies within the sector. Danby Advertising secured the contract for a similar service for the English Bridge Union and English Bridge magazine and the rest is history. Chris’s background prior to this was repro/design studio manager and sales within the print sector.
I took up competitive bridge as a postgraduate student, mainly in partnership with Jonathan Mestel. We had the good fortune to win the first EBU event we entered; the 1988 Corwen Trophy. I developed a parallel interest in double-dummy solving and composition, and wrote a program which did its best at double-dummy analysis with the computing power then available.