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4BR Bradford Challenge: Pick the Winner

All you have to do to win a great prize of a Tiger Plastic Trumpet worth £250 is pick the Yorkshire Area winner on St Magnus...

Tiger Trumpet
 

We have a great prize on offer for the kick-off of the 2014 Regional Championships of Great Britain.

Pick the winner

If you can pick the winner of the Championship Section contest at St George’s Hall in Bradford this weekend then you will be put in the 4BR electronic bobble hat to see if you can get your hands on a band new plastic Tiger Trumpet — worth a cool £250!

It’s as easy as that — so no forging your ‘St Magnus’ answers now....

Competing bands:

a) Black Dyke
b) Brighouse & Rastrick
c) Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
d) Drighlington
e) Grimethorpe Colliery
f) Hammonds Saltaire
g) Hebden Bridge
h) Hepworth
i) Marsden Silver
j) Rothwell Temperance
k) Skelmanthorpe
l) Unite the Union (City of Sheffield)
m) Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel

All correct entries will go into a hat and one lucky winner will be picked out.

Butlins winner:

Andrew Johnson from Deal in Kent was the lucky winner of our Butlins competition — after a huge response.

He bagged some great CDs, a brilliant duo of a Denis Wick Clip-on Tuner and Wireless Pickup & Tuner, a 4BR diary and a couple of bottles of Blue Juice valve oil after he plumbed (with many others) for Flowers.

It’s as easy as that — so no forging your ‘St Magnus’ answers now....4BR

Answers:

E-mail us the answer before the announcement of the top section results on Sunday evening with your contact telephone details at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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