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Recent News:
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Online member nominations for Champion Beer of Britain:
All CAMRA members can now take part in the process to choose the Champion Beer of Britain.
A new national website has been launched - www.cbobvoting.org.uk - which for the first time will allow all members to fully participate in the nomination process. Previously beers judged in the national finals go through a very rigorous process to be selected, including a series of regional competitions in nine areas, to find the best regional beer in each of eleven beer style categories.
In each region, the beers selected for the local competitions are determined by nominations including those submitted by branches - with branches polling their own members.
The new website will now allow all members to nominate five beers in each of the eleven categories to be put forward for the CBOB competition. Any CAMRA member can login into the new web site using the same login details they use to access the members' area of the CAMRA national website. Having logged in you'll be able to access information about the nomination schedule - with the nomination period varying region to region - but the nominations period in many regions starts in December.
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On Saturday 19th November 2011 Sunderland & South Tyneside CAMRA handed over a cheque for £172 to MacMillan Cancer Support. The money was donated by patrons of the 2011 Sunderland Octoberfest who wanted the returns from unused beer tokens & returned glass deposits to go to charity. MacMillan was our selected charity for this years festival. In the pictures: Lynn Dobson & Fiona Monteith-Preston of SST_CAMRA plus Sara Goldie of MacMillan. Thanks from SST_CAMRA & MacMillan for all donations.
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Congratulations to the Steamboat South Shields, runners up in the NE Regional CAMRA Pub of the Year event 2011.
We presented The Steamboat with their 2011 POTY runner up certificate on Thursday 27th October. (Click on pictures to see detail.)
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The online copy of the program for 3rd Sunderland Octoberfest (2011) is now available for download here:
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This year's NE regional winners for Pub, Club & Cider Pub of the Year have been announced:
NE Regional Pub of the Year: The Boathouse, Wylam (Tyneside & Northumberland).
NE Regional Club of the Year: The Snooker Club, Darlington (Darlington).
NE Cider Pub of the Year: The Free Trade Inn, Ouseburn (Tyneside & Northumberland).
Well done to all three winners & we hope as the NE representative they?ll all do well in the three "Super Region" events.
Our branch entries: The Steamboat, South Shields & Ashbrooke Sports Club, Sunderland were both runners up.
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Members of the branch recently attended the launch of a new guide to the top ten pubs in Durham City. The event, hosted by Durham CAMRA was enjoyed very much. A copy of the guide is available here for download: 
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Congratulations to Jarrow Brewery on the acquisition of new premises in Sunderland.
The Isis Pub on Silksworth Row will provide a handy stepping stone on the current real ale trail from the Town Centre to the Museum Vaults & beyond to the Deptford pubs.
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Congratulations to the Mid Boldon Club, winning the Sunderland and South Tyneside CAMRA branches Club of the Year 2011.
The presentation to the Mid Bolden of their 2011 COTY certificate took place on Saturday 7th May.
Also congratulations to the runners up Ashbrooke Sports Club. Ashbrooke will represent Sunderland and South Tyneside branch in the Regional Club of the Year event. (Mid Bolden being ineligible for the Regional event.)
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Congratulations to the Steamboat South Shields, winning the Sunderland and South Tyneside CAMRA branches Pub of the Year 2011 - Winners for the third year in a row, a fantastic achievement!Good luck to the Steamboat in the Regional Pub of the Year event.
We presented The Steamboat with their 2011 POTY certificate on Thursday 31st March. (Click on pictures to see detail.)
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Sunderland & South Tyneside CAMRA 
