The Shetland Ladies A pool team came agonisingly close to causing a real upset in the EBA European Masters tournament, losing narrowly to Scotland in the semi-finals.

The Shetland senior pool teams had mixed success in the weekend’s inter-county matches, with the women defeating Orkney 22-14 but the men going down 45-33.

Sunday saw the finals of the Shetland Open at the Norscot Social Club. In the quarter finals Sean Watt beat George Fraser 6-4, Stephen Dobson won 6-4 against Davie Sandison, Adam Swift had a triumphant 6-1 win over Colin Irvine and 6-1 was also the result between Kenny Henry and Martin Ramsay, taking Kenny through.…

WBC, Whitedale SC and Tipstars have won divisions one, two and four of the Shetland Pool Associaion leagues, while the division three champions will not be known until some missing games have been played.

Missing matches – division two: Re-Racks v Lancers; Lancers v South Kirk Close; Sumburgh Hotel v Re-Racks; Sumburgh Hotel v LBC;…

Shetland had a resounding vic­tory over Orkney in the annual snooker inter-county, played at the Whitedale Snooker Club on Saturday.

The doubles got under way first and Shetland soon showed their opponents a clean pair of heels. Stephen Dobson and James Ramsay defeated Raymond Smith and Duncan Cameron (O) 3-1; George Fraser and Brydon Mouat…

The “Watt & Duncan 08” Winter Pool League was won this week by Amanda Cutt. In a competition that was said to be “anybody’s game” right until the final matches, Amanda came out tops to win the annual shield and £50 prize cheque.

Victory in this competition puts Amanda through to represent Shetland in the…

Shetland staged a memorable comeback to win the 25th men’s pool inter-county match, played at the Commodore Hotel in Orkney.

Thirteen players represented each team and the format was three sets of 13 singles matches, each match consisting of two games. Every game counted as one point so there were 78 points up for grabs.…

AT THE second IBA pool tournament in Rosyth, Shetland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Orkney competed in a round robin competition.

Eight men’s teams and six women’s teams vied against each other for the right to call themselves Champions of the Smaller Isles.

The two Shetland men’s teams lost out in the semi-finals, finishing third…

THIS year’s Shetland Freezer Foods Trophy pool competition was played recently. The last eight players were Kenneth Henry who lost 1-5 to Brian Thompson; Sandy Henry who beat John Magnus Jeromson 5-3; George Fraser who lost 3-5 against Stephen Cutt; and Ryan Duncan who lost 3-5 to son Steve Duncan.

Brian Thompson went on to…

THE RESULTS of the last eight games in the Tennents Trophy pool competition were: Brian Thompson beat Stephen Dobson 5-3; Chris Young beat Sandy Henry 5-2; Martin Ramsay beat Colin Irvine 5-4; Allan Johnson lost to George Fraser 5-2.

The first semi-final saw Chris Young beat Brian Thompson 5-2 while in the second match Martin…

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.