Cheers

Top Gun's benevolent rivals are buddies

Snifter donned his best tweeds to ride up to Holland and Holland shooting club in Middlesex for the Buddies of the Benevolent clay- pigeon shoot. Eight teams of four battled it out around the grounds for the Top Gun prize. Snifter - who thought clay pigeons would actually resemble little pigeons - clearly knew nothing about the sport. So it came as a great surprise when he managed to hit 33 out of 64 clays, only 18 clays behind Top Gun Chris Mitchell from Cube Communications, who - Snifter might add - had brought his own 12-bore and had clearly been donning tweed for years. Buddies of the Benevolent chairman Nick Dymoke-Marr of Orbital Wines seemed rather annoyed at coming only one clay behind the Top Gun. The event raised over £3000 for the charity and Snifter just can't wait to compete next year.

Madge's favourite brewer bags award

Superstar Madonna's

favourite brewer bagged

another accolade last week at Yorkshire's tourist board awards. Keighley-based

Timothy Taylor's

commitment to BBPA's Beautiful Beer campaign was rewarded at the White Rose celebrations, held in the Magna Science

Adventure Centre in Rotherham. Andrew Daykin, the company's tied estates manager accepted the award from BBC sports presenter Harry Gration at a ceremony attended by more than 500 people to celebrate the very best in Yorkshire. The White Rose Award for the Pub of the Year, sponsored by the regional branch of the BBPA, went to Michelin gastropub the Star Inn at Harome, near Helmsley.