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4BR Quiz: Pick the Grand Shield winner

Forget the one armed bandits on the Golden Mile — and try your luck picking a winner of the Grand Shield to win a jackpot prize.

Marieka Gray and the Grand Shield
 

A great little goodie bag is on offer this weekend for the lucky person who can pick the 2014 Grand Shield winner.

Pick the winner

If you can pick the winner of the Grand Shield contest at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on Saturday then you can get your hands on a great little goodie bag of five of the latest top brass band CDs and a few other little bits and pieces we pick up on the Golden Mile.

It’s as easy as that — so get your answer in and we will pick out the lucky winner from the 4BR Editor’s ‘Kiss Me Quick’ hat.

Competing bands:

a) Aldbourne
b) Burry Port
c) East Yorkshire Motor Services
d) Flowers
e) Hammonds Saltaire
f) Jaguar Land Rover
g) Marsden Silver
h) Newstead Brass
i) Northop Silver
j) Pemberton Old Wigan DW
k) Redbridge
l) Reg Vardy
m) Rothwell Temperance
n) Thoresby Colliery
o) Tongwynlais Temperance
p) Unite the Union (City of Sheffield)
q) Whitburn
r) Woodfalls
s) Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel

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

so get your answer in and we will pick out the lucky winner from the 4BR Editor’s ‘Kiss Me Quick’ hat4BR

Tiger Trumpet winner:

Tracey Brearley of Huddersfield was the lucky winner of the Tiger Trumpet competition after another huge response to pick the winner (Brighouse & Rastrick) of the top section contest at Yorkshire Regional Championships.

She finally got her hands on the instrument after she had come out of hospital following an operation, and immediately gave it to her grandson Mark who has just started to have lessons in his local school.

Answers:

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

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