Ice Skating News:

Beckie’s bronze at contest
Beckie Vockins with her trophy from the Basingstoke Open. Picture by Robin Crossley. ICE SKATING ISLAND figure skater Beckie Vockins won bronze at the Basingstoke Open last week.


Ice skating spectacular raises £9,000 for hospice
SPECTATORS at a recent ice skating event held at Guildford Spectrum managed to raise a cool £9,000 for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice based in Farnham.


Memorial to Pickwick Papers artist resurrected to 'right a moral wrong'
London museum unveils gravestone of Robert Seymour, the artist who killed himself after 'being dropped' by Charles Dickens The scene on 20 April 1836 was horrific: the artist lay in a welter of gore on the floor of the summerhouse at his London home, his coat and waistcoat burning from the ferocity of the shotgun blast which had killed him. Now, a century after Robert Seymour's memorial ...


100 years of selling ice creams in Rhyl
WHAT would a trip to the seaside be without a stroll along the promenade ice cream in hand.


Evening Times
Walter Smith has had one major worry hanging over him throughout Rangers pre-season campaign – and he’s powerless to remove it from his mind.


Grounds for concern over Tri-Nations pitch condition
The condition of the pitch for Saturday's Tri-Nations match between Australia and New Zealand is causing concern after players from a rival football code threatened to boycott the venue.


Tri-Nations - Melbourne pitch concern as AFL threaten boycott
The pitch condition for the Tri-Nations match between Australia and New Zealand is causing concern after AFL players threatened to boycott.


Skating more lightly with metal replacement
Weight reduction is a key design driver for Netherlands-based Viking, a leading producer of ice skates. The latest generation of Viking skates is now completely made in plastic – except for the metal blade.


Figure skating-China's golden couple plan wedding on ice
China's first Olympic champion figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo are to combine their long-delayed wedding party with a star-studded gala on ice next month.


Mourners united in sorrow for 'TK'
THEY came in their hundreds to remember TK – described by his friends last night as “one in a million”.








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