THE 2014 Commonwealth Games will be worth £81 million to Scotland £26 million for Glasgow specifically, in jobs, tourism, investment and other economic activity, a new report published today claims.

Cycling, diving, hockey and shooting are among the sports with a top price of £25 and a starting price

  PRESTON is investigating building a 50 metre Olympic-sized swimming pool and two eight-court Olympic-specification badminton halls to help them attract a leading team to train there in the build-up to the 2012 Games, it was reported today.

centred upon the £12 million Preston Sports Arena at Cottam with other facilities, including the police shooting

  COUNCIL leaders in Greenwich have hit back at attempts by some shooting and equestrian officials to

  There have been renewned efforts in recent months to move equestrian away from Greenwich Park and shooting

More than 8,000 people have signed a Downing Street petition to change the venue for shooting to Dartford

Clay Shooting Club, which is the preferred venue of British Shooting.

Dartford Clay Shooting Club member Cliff Brookes, from Sevenoaks, said: "We have members that come from

  FRESH doubts have today been expressed by equestrian officials about Greenwich Park, the venue to stage the sport during the 2012 Olympics.

world governing body, because it is not hilly enough while a campaign has been launched to have the shooting

  JANUARY 28 - THE Government's plans to relax the ban on pistol shooters training in Britain during the build-up to the 2012 Olympics has been condemned as "half-hearted" by one of the country's greatest ever competitors at the event.

banned the ownership of handguns in England, Scotland and Wales in the aftermath of the Dunblane school shooting

50 pistol shooters to train in the UK and representatives from the sports' governing body - British Shooting

  THE dispute between shooting and London 2012 over the venue to be used for the Olympics has resurfaced

  Philip Boakes, the chairman of British Shooting, has written to every MP calling for the venue to

"Other sports have already had their venues moved so why not shooting?  

Boakes said British Shooting had looked at three alternative locations - Bisley and Nuthampstead were

the others - before settling on a 180-acre site at Dartford currently used for clay pigeon shooting.

LOCOG say the move was approved by the International Shooting Federation.  

  THE dispute between shooting and London 2012 over the venue to be used for the Olympics has resurfaced

  Philip Boakes, the chairman of British Shooting, has written to every MP calling for the venue to

"Other sports have already had their venues moved so why not shooting?  

Boakes said British Shooting had looked at three alternative locations - Bisley and Nuthampstead were

the others - before settling on a 180-acre site at Dartford currently used for clay pigeon shooting.

LOCOG say the move was approved by the International Shooting Federation.  

THE British Olympic Association (BOA) today officially announced details of Team GB's preparation camp plans ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.    

qualification): Archery, athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, judo, shooting

  NOVEMBER 1 - BRITISH SHOOTING has hired a top London public relations firm in an effort to improve

British Shooting, which is also the organisation for Great Britain’s Olympic rifle, pistol and clay pigeon

shooting teams, said it wants to address ‘misconceptions’ about the sport.  

Good Relations is also tasked with raising the profile of British Shooting as it attempts to reach a

British Shooting will additionally use Good Relations to lobby Government as it calls for pistol shooting

  NOVEMBER 1 - BRITISH SHOOTING has hired a top London public relations firm in an effort to improve

British Shooting, which is also the organisation for Great Britain’s Olympic rifle, pistol and clay pigeon

shooting teams, said it wants to address ‘misconceptions’ about the sport.  

Good Relations is also tasked with raising the profile of British Shooting as it attempts to reach a

British Shooting will additionally use Good Relations to lobby Government as it calls for pistol shooting

  BRITAIN moved a step closer to the 2012 Olympics with a comprehensive 74-41 victory over Switzerland in the first leg of their promotion playoff game in Sheffield tonight.

defence - Switzerland would score only seven points during the second quarter, returning miserable shooting

The Swiss were condemned by dire shooting, making only 15 of 58 (26 per cent) from the field.

  KATY LIVINGSTON (pictured), Mhairi Spence and Lindsey Weedon made sure Great Britain ended their Modern Pentathlon World Championships campaign on a high note by striking gold in the women’s team relay event.

The British trio were in third place after the first discipline, the shooting, having accumulated a combined

  BRITAIN'S Georgina Harland today produced another strong finish to claim the bronze medal at the last round of Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Rome.

Harland, the Athens 2004 Olympic bronze medallist, made a slow start to her series, scoring 170 in the shooting

  BRITAIN'S modern pentathletes ended their European Championships campaign in Riga today on a high note by capturing the gold medal in the women’s team relay, led by Georgina Harland (pictured).

The GB women’s team were joint first with Belarus after the first discipline in the team relay – the shooting

  HEATHER FELL took silver and Katy Livingston finished sixth at the European Championships in Riga today to become the first British Modern Pentathletes to achieve the Beijing 2008 Olympic qualification standard.

Livingston took the early initiative in today’s final in Riga, scoring 184 in the pistol shooting range

Fell and Spence both scored 180 in the shooting for 1096 points, to both stand joint 11th.