11.   Cricket now and Kent have posed problems for Gloucestershire in their match at Canterbury scoring a hundred and six for one in their second innings.

12.   CITY of Derry Rugby Club enter a new era tomorrow with their first competitive match at their new Waterside ground.

13.   But after a topsy-turvy match at Midgley Park it was the Swifts who booked their place in the second round, running out winners.

14.   LANCASHIRE spinner Alex Barnett had Essex on the rack on the third day of their championship match at Old Trafford today.

15.   She reportedly was injured in her quarterfinal match at the French Open and received pain-killing injections before her semi-final and final matches.

16.   Bad weather prevented any play on Saturday in the matches at Chesterfield, at Basingstoke and at Hove.

17.   Burns was left out of the drawn League match at Wolves on Saturday to make way for loan signing Alan McLoughlin.

18.   In the second Northern One East match at the Cleveland County Stadium Leeds just beat hosts Mandale after a neck-and-neck struggle throughout the afternoon.