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4BR at Perth and Gateshead

A busy weekend with 4BR at the Scottish Open and Brass in Concert and we hope to bring you all the action and drama...

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The last major contesting weekend in the UK kicks off in Scotland and the North East in just over 24 hours time – and 4BR will be there to cover the drama as it happens.

Perth and Gateshead

4BR Editor Iwan Fox is making the trip north to Perth to cover the Scottish Open Championship, before taking the long road south to meet up with Malcolm Wood to bring you reports on the action at Brass in Concert at The Sage in Gateshead.

Blaenavon and St Helens

Also on the weekend, 4BR will be keeping our eyes on the SWEBBA Contest in Blaenavon and The Northern Open in St Helens.

Twitter

4BR hopes to bring you our usual live coverage, reports, opinions and interviews from Scotland The Sage on the 4BR site, as well as through our Twitter sites #SCOTOPEN2010 and #BIC2010.

Go to: http://twitter.com/4barsrest

SMS Text service

There is also the opportunity to make sure you get the results of Brass in Concert of through our usual SMS Text service too.

Go to: http://www.4barsrest.com/news/detail.asp?id=12553

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