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The British Isles Indoor Bowls Championships is an annual tournament organised by the British Isles Indoor Bowls Council and held between the respective men's and women's champions from England, Scotland, Wales, combined Ireland and combined Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) in singles, pairs, triples, fours, and junior singles, and senior fours (over 60s) in the men's event. The tournament runs alongside the annual International Series contested by England, Scotland, Wales and combined Ireland.

The tournament is usually held at the beginning of the indoor season after each of the champions won their respective titles.

History
The men's events started in 1967, with the triples added for the first time in 1972, the junior singles in 1988 and the senior fours in 2009. The first women's events started in 1973, with triples added for the first time in 1977 and junior singles in 2002.

The first men's singles champion was legendary England bowler David Bryant CBE in 1967, and Enid Fairhall from the Atherley Bowling Club in Hampshire made it an England double by winning the first women's singles title in 1973.

Men's Singles Champions
Playing for the John Coles Trophy.

WOMEN'S

Women's Singles Champions
Playing for the Ardrossan Trophy.

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Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.

The Divisional Championship was an annual rugby union competition in England that ran over two separate periods between the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, contested by representative teams from four geographical regions of England.

Launched at a time when there was no formalised league structure for club matches in England, the competition was devised to allow players to gain experience of representative rugby, and concentrate the country's strongest players into a single competitive tournament below international level, thereby providing a better basis for selecting a successful England team.

The first version of the championship began during the 1977/78 season, with a brief hiatus in the early 1980s, before it returned in a slightly altered format for the 1985/86 season. The championship ended for a second time during the 1995/96 season as the professional era of rugby union began. All matches were generally played in the December of each season, to prepare players ahead of the start of the Five Nations Championship in the new year.

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