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Lee Toleman won the title in 2005 &
2007 with James Smith & Simon
Pridham before winning again in
2014 with James Smith & Bronagh
Toleman. In 2020 he made it four
wins with Bronagh Toleman &
Lawrence Moffat. They also won the
British Isles Triples Title in 2020. Lee
just needs a World Title for a full
house.
Norfolk’s Simon Warnes, Mor-
gan Warnes & Gary Best won Group
7 with three straight wins before
beating a Humberside triple by 11-4
in the Last 32 round. An 11-9 win
against Suffolk in the Last 16 round
saw them progress into the quarter-
finals to face Surrey. But that proved
to be the end of their winning run as
they went down by 9-5.
Triples Champions Neil Davidson, Trevor Brown &
Lawrence Moffat, Lee & Bronagh Toleman Chris Willies finished as runners-up
in Group 9 to qualify for the Last 32 round where they lost by 15-5 to the eventual winners from North
Yorkshire. It was a bad day at the office for Norfolk’s other triple of Ryan Fox, Keith Cooke & David
Lamb. They were in Group 6 where they suffered three defeats and were eliminate
West Midlands take the Fours

The National Fours title stayed in the West Mids as Jon Pitcher, Craig Strong, Ross Dunkley & Adam
Easthorpe beat Shropshire’s Chris Williams, Chris Shakeshaft, Allan Williams & Chris Grocott by 9-
3 in the final.
The West Mids four had
beaten Devon’s Maddie Edmondson,
Adam Perris, Gill Smith & Nick Wyatt
9-8 in the semi-finals while the Shrop-
shire four had romped home by 12-1
against Dorset’s Paul Pomeroy,
Thomas Perris, Alex Kley & Sam Har-
vey.
Norfolk’s Karl Newby, Robbie
Lamb, Ryan Fox & David Lamb qual-
ified as Group 3 winners unbeaten
with two wins and a draw. In the Last
32 round they beat the West Mids
four of Dave Harris, Peter Dunkley,
Steve Darling, & Gary Brown by 9-6 National Fours Champions
and went on to beat a Devon four by 10-5 in the Last 16 round. But a slow start contributed to a nar-
row 8-6 defeat in the quarter-finals against the eventual runners-up from Shropshire despite a spirited
comeback. Simon Willies, Keith Cooke, Jason Woods & Chris Willies were Group 4 winners with
two wins and a draw.
In the Last 32 round they won by 11-9 against Surrey’s Sue Tuttle, Steph Taylor, Steve Tuttle
& Dave Gillings but were eliminated in the Last 16 round where they lost by 7-8 against a Devon
four.
Selwyn Goldsmith