National Reading Champions
Quiz: online heats May 2021
Regional Area Guidelines
AREA Counties Cities and towns included as Date and examples Time
Northern Ireland All All Wednesday May 5 14.00-16.30
Wales All All Tuesday May 11 14.00-16.30
West Scotland Argyll, Dumbarton, West Glasgow, Greenock, Kilmarnock, Wednesday Stirling, Renfrew, Bute, Stirling, Dunblane, Airdrie, May 19 Ayr, Kirkcudbright, Lanark Dumbarton 10.00-12.30 & Dumfries West of M74
East Scotland East Stirling, Clackmannan, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Perth, Thursday Kinross, Fife, West Lothian, Kirkcaldy, Falkirk May 6 Midlothian, East Lothian, 10.00-12.30 Peebles, Selkirk, Berwick, Roxburgh, South Perth, Lanark & Dumfries East of M74
North Scotland Orkney, Shetland, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee Wednesday Caithness, Sutherland, May 5 Ross & Cromarty, Banff, 10.00-12.30 Inverness, Nairn, Moray, Aberdeen, Kincardine, Angus, North Perthshire, Western Isles
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North East England Northumberland, Tyne & Newcastle, Darlington, Hartlepool, Thursday Wear, North Tyneside, Middlesbrough, Durham, May 20 South Tyneside, Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead, Hexham 10.00-12.30 Cleveland and Morpeth
North West England Cumbria, North Lancashire, Cockermouth, Sedbergh, Preston, Tuesday Isle of Man Lancaster, Blackburn, Blackpool May 4 10.00-12.30
Merseyside South Lancashire, Rochdale, Bolton, Wigan, Thursday Merseyside, Greater Liverpool, Manchester, Chester, May 20 Manchester, Cheshire, The Crewe, Macclesfield, Altrincham, 14.00-16.30 Wirral Alsager
Yorkshire North Yorkshire, East York, Leeds, Wakefield, Skipton, Thursday Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Bradford, Hull, Sheffield, May 6 West Yorkshire Doncaster, Barnsley, Settle, Hawes 14.00-16.30
East Midlands Derbyshire, Worksop, Corby, Leicester, Tuesday Nottinghamshire, Loughborough, Nottingham, May 18 Lincolnshire, Leicestershire Oakham, Immingham, Lincoln, 10.00-12.30 and Northamptonshire, Bourne, Uppingham, Rutland Northampton, Towcester, Kettering, Sleaford, Spalding, Brackley
West Midlands Staffordshire, Shropshire, Birmingham, Coventry, Warwick, Tuesday Hereford & Worcester, Stratford upon Avon, Stoke on May 4 West Midlands and Trent, Stafford Wolverhampton, 14.00-16.30 Warwickshire Worcester, Evesham, Telford
Oxford & Berkshire Oxfordshire, Berkshire Oxford, Burford, Witney, Banbury, Wednesday Wantage, Abingdon, Newbury, May 19 Reading, Wokingham, Slough, 14.00-16.30 Maidenhead, Windsor, Ascot
East England Norfolk, Suffolk, Norwich, King's Lynn, Ipswich, Tuesday Cambridgeshire Stowmarket, Downham Market, May 11 Aylsham, Attleborough, 10.00-12.30 Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Peterborough, Huntingdon
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Thames Gateway Essex, Kent - excluding Colchester, Chelmsford, Southend, Thursday North West & South Romford, Epping, Bexleyheath, May 13 Harlow, Barking, Walthamstow, 14.00-16.30 Stratford, Dartford, Rochester, Orpington, Canterbury, Saffron Walden, Thurrock, Greenwich, Woolwich
North London North Greater London, Ruislip, Harrow, Enfield, Wednesday Hertfordshire, Stevenage, Hertford, Potters Bar, May 12 Buckinghamshire, St Albans Watford, Berkhamsted, 10.00-12.30 Bedfordshire Milton Keynes, Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Dunstable, Luton, Harpenden, Hatfield, Letchworth, Bishop Stortford
South London South Greater London and Hounslow, Fulham, Teddington, Thursday Thames North bank, Surrey Lewisham, Bromley, Croydon, May 13 inside M25, North West Reigate, Banstead, Egham, 10.00-12.30 Kent Southall, Ealing, City of London
South England East & West Sussex, Rye, Eastbourne, Chichester, I of Wednesday Hampshire, Surrey outside Wight, Basingstoke, Southampton, May 12 M25, South Kent Portsmouth, Horsham, Guildford, 14.00-16.30 Reigate, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Dover
South West Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Gloucester, Bristol, Bath, Tuesday Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Dorchester, Exeter, Swindon, May 18 Cornwall Trowbridge, Truro, Taunton 14.00-16.30
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