PRUDHOE and District held its final old bird race of the season from Arras, in France, members sending birds a total distance of 376 miles.

Tynedale Homing Society did the same, five members sending 39 birds. It was a great race for Hexham’s Gordon Dodd as his pigeons secured the channel and old bird championships.

Results

Prudhoe: 1 & 2, Hindmarsh & Telfer, 1333 & 1332; 3, John Brown, 1318; 4, Jim Kennedy, 1314; 5, Jeff Hall & son, 1310; 6, Blackburn, Daugher & Brown, 1308. Tynedale: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8, G. Dodd, 1261, 1211, 1203, 1191, 1152 & 1143; 2 & 3, K. Springett, 1260 & 1211.