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.

Three Shetland fencers were selected for the Scotland B team at the weekend, which defeated Northern Ireland, the RAF and a side selected by the president of Scottish Fencing.

Shetland fencing triumphed at Scotland’s most prestigious competition at the weekend with local fencer Christopher Rocks becoming Scottish épée champion and his twin brother Stephen coming fifth in the men’s sabre.

Shetland Fencing Club travelled to Inverness at the weekend and pro­duced probably the best results in the several years of competing in this senior Scottish Open com­petition.

Last weekend the Shetland Fencing Club travelled away to the Doric Open at the Beach Leisure Centre in Aberdeen.

A group of six fencers from Shetland travelled to Glasgow last weekend to join five other Shetland Fencing Club members to compete in the Glasgow Senior Open competition.

This is one of the major Scottish competitions on the calendar, drawing a large entry from all over the UK and beyond.

The minimum age for this senior event…

Shetland Fencing Club held its annual prizegiving on Saturday to round off the club championships which had been held over the last few weeks.

The championships are open to under-18s and consists of three separate competitions for the three different weapons of fencing; the foil, épée and sabre.

The foil competition was held first. The…

Shetland Fencing Club had an impressive nine competitors in the biggest senior Scottish fencing event of the calendar at Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh.

For junior fencers this level of competition is very tough, as they will compete against experienced seniors from the UK and abroad.

Living in Shetland it is not practical to “do the rounds”…

FENCER Sophie Drosso, 16, got her season off to a flying start on Saturday.

She finished second with the silver medal and won the North Section Schools Cup, in the first major (senior) Scottish open com-petition of the year in Inverness.

One of the oldest competitions on the calendar, the Highland Open brought competitors from…

LAST weekend’s Doric Open proved to be a huge success for Shetland fencers, who claimed six medals at the event in Aberdeen’s Beach Leisure Centre.

Saturday’s events saw the men’s épée first with some of Scotland’s top fencers entered.

The Shetland contingent got off to a good start with Paul Hibbert, Kyle Smith and Chris…

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.