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can you strip a bit of the bark off?, fire blight is active at this part of the season, if you take a bit of the bark off the outer wood is stained brow then thats your culprit. if it is then follow below
Copied off the rhs site - Prune out and burn infections promptly, peeling back the bark to reveal the brown staining and cutting back 30cm (1ft) to healthy wood in smaller branches, 60cm (2ft) in larger ones. Wipe pruning tools with disinfectant (Jeyes Fluid or methylated spirit) between cuts to avoid spreading the bacteria. Remove secondary, late blossoms before they open.
Fireblight will also normally show as black, shrivelled tips to shoots - like somebody has burnt it.
Apple scab more likely as it accelerates with wet & humid conditions which we have had on/ off in Lincs over the past few weeks (I have powdery mildew on flowering currants at home) treat with fungicide at bud burst then +3 weeks after.
Systhane: http://www.progreen.co.uk/Fungicides/Fungicides-for-horticulture/Sy...
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Might be apple scab. If it is, all is not lost, but good garden hygiene is needed over winter to help get it under control. I wrote about what to do, with links to factsheets, http://helengazeley.typepad.co.uk/gardenwriter/2014/10/apples-probl...