Table tennis player Lynda Flaws retained her Scottish girls’ under-18 title in Saltcoats at the weekend.

Table tennis player Lynda Flaws won the Ladies Class Two Singles of the Aarhus Open in Denmark last week, reached another two finals and picked up 650 Danish krone into the bargain.

YOUNG table tennis player Lynda Flaws won her first Scottish girls’ under-18 title at the weekend.

This completes a hat-trick of Scottish titles for the 15-year-old from Quendale, who won the under-12 and under-14 titles in previous years. Lynda has now won all possible age group titles – the next challenge will be the women’s…

It was a special day in the South Mainland on Friday with its first-ever Up-Helly-A’ festival proving a roaring success.

WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SHETLAND

Friday, 12 March 2010 at 10:42

HEADLINES

TODAY: SCATTERED SHOWERS, COOL NW’LY WIND
TONIGHT: LITTLE CHANGE
TOMORROW: SCATTERED SHOWERS, BREEZY
DAYS 2-5: SOME RAIN OR SHOWERS, LIGHTER WINDS
DAYS 6-10: RAIN OR SHOWERS

Firms in Shetland are facing huge rate rises – some by as much as two-thirds – under the Scottish government’s revaluation of business property which will come into force at the beginning of next month.