Leeds City Council says demand for crown green bowling has fallen by 39% since 2014, with three-quarters of existing council sites having fewer than 30 members. It says even if the closures went ...

A crown green bowling champion who was thrown out of a well-heeled village social club for 'sexual impropriety' has received a fourth restraining order in a month after puncturing club members' tyres.

A veteran Crown Green bowls player went on a 'revenge' vandalism rampage after finding out that his membership to a private members club had been terminated after 46 years. Robert Crawshaw ...

She told BBC Radio Leeds: "To decimate the whole history of crown green bowling in the north of England - which is what the knock-on effect would be - is very short-sighted. "We've got people ...

THE Hart Crown Green Bowling Club at Headless Cross are appealing for new members to join their respective teams ahead of the ...

The aim is simple - to get your bowls as close as possible to a smaller target ball called the 'jack'. Crown Green Bowls is similar, but is played on a square bowling green which is made of ...

Leeds city council had earmarked 30 of its 61 authority-run crown green bowling sites for closure on April 1, to save money. The council said memberships in the area had fallen by 39 per cent ...

Neil James, secretary of Grove Hill Park Crown Green Bowling Club, said: ‘For many older people, it’s a way of life. They wait for summer to come around, when they can play bowls.’ ...

Stuart Greenhalgh continues series of conversations with some of the area’s biggest names in crown green bowling, this week focusing his ...