Curlers claim silver

TEAM GB curlers Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan and Kyle Waddell (alternate) won silver at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. The curling team, featuring Dumfries and Galloway trio Grant, Bobby and Hammy, lost Saturday night's final with Canada 9-6. Chief executive of sportscotland, Forbes Dunlop, said: “Congratulations to Team Mouat on winning a silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games. “The team’s back-to-back Olympic medals and two World Championship titles underlines their remarkable consistency on the world stage and they had the whole nation enthralled throughout this competition. “Scottish athletes continue to deliver consistently on the world stage across a range of sports, demonstrating that Scotland's approach to developing a pathway to performance sport is paying off.”