*23/02/10*

Musical Chairs! With the Areas only a couple of weeks away the positions have been finalised to cover all the parts.

Cornets. Congratulations to Ed Hill who has landed a position as MD with the BMP Europe Goodshaw band for the contest. He and his wife Nicola have moved on after a few years with Flixton and we wish them all the best. We welcome David Maplestone (formerly of Grimethorpe) onto soprano cornet. Long-standing member Tom Hylgaard returns to contesting to fill our front row vacancy, and we welcome a new face to the back row with Emily McDaid joining Flixton on 3rd cornet.

Horns. With Nicola Hill's departure Andy Vail returns to 2nd horn and Hannah Myers completes the line-up on 1st horn.

Euphonium. We welcome back Andy Tyson to the solo euphonium chair. Mike Rowley has moved to explore the depths of BBb bass.

Basses. Alongside Mike on BBb we welcome back Andy Myers. Scott LLoyd, formerly of Wrexham Brass, joins us to play Eb alongside Paul Goddard. Paul is a former principal cornet with Flixton who must hold some sort of record for the most different parts played since first joining in 1969.

Percussion. Regular percussionist Ian Baguley is joined by Dave Insua Cao and Mike Gilborne to complete the team.

*28/01/10*

Congratulations to Lynne Campbell. After nearly a year on the solo horn part for Flixton, Lynne is moving up to play for Championship section band, Pemberton. Lynne's final appearance for Flixton was at the Butlin's championships last weekend, where the band was placed 10th in a highly competitive field. We wish Lynne every success and look forward to seeing her at future banding events.

We welcome back Mona Byskov Hylgaard, who will return from her 'maternity leave' to play solo horn for the all-important Area contest in March.

*04/01/10*

Happy New Year! The band will gather for the first time tonight following the Christmas break and get straight down to the hard work of preparing for the Butlins contest later this month.

Christmas fund-raising was a great success. It ensured the necessary funds to keep the band running and helped to raise our profile within the local community. Our thanks to the many people who passed on messages of goodwill and contributed to our collections in the run-up to Christmas.