As the local football season draws to a close, Whitedale and Spurs will contest Saturday’s County Shield final at the Gilbertson Park after the West Side team narrowly defeated champions Whalsay in the semi-finals. Otherwise Delting picked up two more wins, including a first league defeat for Whalsay, and are now favourites to finish second in the G&S Flooring Premier League.

Competition for senior hockey’s Grutness Trophy is hotting up, with Spurs leading the way on nine points but Delting and Whalsay, who have both played a game less, are on seven and six points respectively.

The Carling Scottish Cup will be in Shetland today and tomorrow as part of an effort by a local firm to raise money for the senior football team’s trip to next year’s island games in the Isle of Wight.

Celtic took the honours in this year’s Bloomfield Cup Final, overcoming Delting in an entertaining match at the Gilbertson Park on Saturday.

Shetland fencer Christopher Rocks has been selected for the Commonwealth Fencing Open Championships.

He will be part of the Scotland squad for the event, sanctioned by but independent of the Commonwealth Games. Although the games will be held in Delhi, India, the fencing championships will take place separately in Melbourne, Australia.

Spurs made it through to the final of senior football’s final knockout competition of the season, the County Shield, after defeating Thistle in the quarter-final on Friday and following it up with a win over Delting in the semi-final on Monday.

Whalsay won senior hockey’s Shearer Shield on Monday, finishing off the campaign with a 2-0 win over Delting and maintaining a 100 per cent record in the competition.

The new rugby season gets under way on Saturday when Shetland Rugby Club take on Huntly at Clickimin, kick-off at noon.

Fly fishers gathered at Bixter on Saturday morning for Shetland Angling Association’s final Bank League competition of the season.

Cyclist Christine McLean retained her British title last weekend while competing in the RTTC national 12-hour time trial championship.

A former Lerwick optician is suing his estranged wife and erstwhile business partner for more than £800,000, claiming that her actions after they went their separate ways six years ago effectively left him out of work.

New SIC chief executive Alistair Buchan came face to face with all councillors this week for the first time since taking up the post for what he described as “very positive” initial discussions about how to react to major criticisms in the Accounts Commission’s recent report on the local authority.

Multiple Grammy winner Steve Earle, the outspoken singer-song­writer responsible for a host of classic Americana songs including Copperhead Road, Guitar Town and Galway Girl, will be stopping off in Lerwick next Thursday for a re-arranged show at Clickimin.