{"id":493300,"date":"2025-10-12T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493300\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:02:13","slug":"2025-national-championship-of-great-britain-4barsrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493300\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 National Championship of Great Britain \u2014 4barsrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desford surprise the favourites to claim a fifth National title success. <\/p>\n<p>Desford Colliery ends a 34 year wait to claim their fifth National title. <\/p>\n<p>Report to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Result:<\/p>\n<p>Test Piece: Symphony in Two Movements (Edward Gregson)<br \/>Adjudicators: Ian Bousfield; Dr Stephen Cobb; Prof Rob Wiffen OBE<\/p>\n<p>1. Desford Colliery (David Morton)*<br \/>2. Black Dyke (Prof Nicholas Childs)*<br \/>3. Flowers (Paul Holland)*<br \/>4. Whitburn (Chris Shanks)*<br \/>5. Brighouse &amp; Rastrick (Prof David King)<br \/>6. Hepworth (Ryan Watkins)<br \/>7. Tredegar (Ian Porthouse)<br \/>8. Ebbw Valley (Matthew Rowe)<br \/>9. the cooperation band (Katrina Marzella-Wheeler)<br \/>10. Oldham Band (Lees) (John Collins)<br \/>11. Foden&#8217;s (Russell Gray)<br \/>12. GUS Band (David Thornton)<br \/>13. Leyland (Daniel Brooks)<br \/>14. Aldbourne (Glyn Williams)<br \/>15. NASUWT Riverside (Stephen Malcolm)<br \/>16. East London Brass (Jayne Murrill)<br \/>17. Zone One Brass (Richard Ward)<br \/>18. City of Hull (Jonathan Beatty)<br \/>19. St Dennis (Darren R. Hawken)<\/p>\n<p>Best Instrumentalist: Kevin Crockford (soprano) \u2014 Desford Colliery<\/p>\n<p>*Top four pre-qualify for 2026 National final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desford surprise the favourites to claim a fifth National title success. Desford Colliery ends a 34 year wait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[29109,29110,748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-493300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-4barsrest","11":"tag-brass-band","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360625202177259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}