SPORT LIST

head for Ibrox waiting to see if there will be a repeat of the season‘s

i opening game‘s antics. Ilighly

unlikely you might have thought. but Rangers will be out for revenge. DIVISION 1 o Airdrie v East File Broomfield. Airdrie (see above).

0 Clyde v Dunlermline Firhill. Glasgow (see above). 0 Morton V Brechin Cappielow. Greenock (see above).

DIVISION 2

o Ayr United v Stenhousemuir Somerset Park Ayr. (Ground 10 mins from Ayr anti Newton-on-Ayr stations).

0 Stirling vAIbion Rovers Firs Park. Falkirk (Ground 10mins from Grahamstown station).

0 Meadowbank Thistle vAlloa Meadowbank. Edinburgh (Buses4. 5. 26. 35. 42.44).

0 Queen’s Park v Cowdenbeath Hampden Park. Glasgow (Buses 5. 12.l4.I9.23.26.31.34.37.398.bb. 67, 89. 90).

o Raith Rovers v St Johnstone Stark‘s Park. Kirkcaldy (Edinburgh. Dunfermline. I.even buses pass ground).

HORSE RACING Monday 6

o EdinburgMHat). Monday 13/Tuesday 14

o Ayr(I“Iat).

RUGBY Saturday 4

McEWAN‘S NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION 1

0 West 01 Scotland v Heriots FP Burnbrae. .‘Vlilngavie. 3pm.

0 Watsonians v Boroughmuir Myreside. Edinburgh. 3pm.

0 Ayr v Stewarts/Melville FP Millbrae. Ayr. 3pm.

0 Edinburgh Accies v Glasgow Accies Raeburn Place. Edinburgh. 3pm.

Saturday 11

McEWAN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION 1

0 Heriots F? v Melrose Goldenacre. Edinburgh. 3pm.

0 West 01 Scotland v Hawick Burnbrae. Milngavie. 3pm.

0 Boroughmuirv Kelso Meggetland. Edinburgh. 3pm.

0 Stewarts/Melville FP v Selkirk Inverleith. Edinburgh. 3pm.

0 Glasgow Acadstyr New Anniesland. Glasgow. 3pm.

Saturday 4

SCOTTISH BREWERS NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

DIVISION I (Men)

0 Western v Ruthrieslon Linwood Sports Centre. Paisley. 2.30pm.

0 Grange v Menzieshill Mary Erskine High School. Edinburgh. 2.30pm.

0 Inverleith v ICI Pfeffermill. Edinburgh. 2.30pm.

Saturday 11

l scomsn BREWERS NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

DIVISION 1 (Men)

0 ICI v Western The Tryst.

38'I‘he List 3 lb October

| Stenhousemuir.2.30pm.

0 Edinburgh CSvGordonians I

Meadowbank. Edinburgha2.30pm. o Kelburne v lnverleith Linwood Sports Centre. Paisley. 2.30pm.

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Saturday 4

0 Glasgow Summit Eagles v File Flyers Summit Centre. Finnieston. Glasgow. Face-off5.30pm. £2.50.

Sunday5

o Murraytield Racers v Glasgow Summit Eagles Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburghl Face-off6.30pm. £2.50.

Saturday 11

0 Glasgow Summit Eagles vAyr Bruins Summit Centre. Finnieston. Glasgow. Face-off5.30pm. £2 (£1). 0 File Flyers v Dundee Rockets Kirkcaldy Ice Rink. Kirkcaldy. Face-off7. 15pm. £2.75 (£1.75).

0 Ayr Bruins v Murraylield Racers Ayr Ice Rink. Ayr. Face-off 7pm. £2.50.

BASKETBALL Fflday3

0 Edinburgh Royals v Glasgow Airport Forester I Iigh School. Edinburgh. 7.45pm. (Women Div 1).

Saturday 4

0 Mutual Lite v Edzell Stags Linwood SC. 3.45pm. (Men Div I)

o Stirling v Falkirk Stirling University. 7pm. (Men Div 1)

Sunday 5

O GEAR V Dundee East St Mungo‘s Academy. Glasgow. 12.45pm. (Women Div 2)

0 Murray IL v Royal Oeeside Wester Hailes Education Centre. 2pm. (Women Div 1)

o GEAR v Glasgow Airport AleXandra Park SP. Glasgow. 3pm. (Men Div I)

0 Magnum v Murray IL Magnum Centre. Irvine. 3pm. (Men Div 1)

o Clydebank v Fair City Jordanhill College. Glasgow. 3pm. (Men Div 1) O TAPSA V Bruins American School. 3pm. (Men Div 2)

o lnverclyde v Coasters Greenock Sports Centre. 3pm. (Men Div 2)

o MecszoroughmuirAces Bellahouston SC. Glasgow. 4.45pm. (Women Div I)

o Seahawks v Bo’ness Wildcats Ardnadam. 3pm. (Women Div 2)

o J. Watt College v Barr Electrics J. Watt College. Greenock. 2pm. (Men Div 2)

Monday 6

O Dunedin V GEAR St Augustine's High School. Edinburgh. 8.15pm. (Women Div 2)

Tuesday 7

o Bo’ness v Fair City Bo'ness RC. 7.15pm. (Women Div 2)

Sunday12

o Boroughmuir Aces v All Blacks Meadowbank. Edinburgh. 2.15pm. (Women Div 1)

o Dunedin v Coasters St Augustine's High School. Edinburgh. 2.15pm. (Women Div 2)

o Boroughmulrv Cumnock Curries Meadowbank. Edinburgh. 3pm. (Men Div 1)

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0 Missing Persons David Cook (£9.95 The Alison Press/Seeker I and Warburg) o The Death of the Body C. K. Stead (£9.95 Collins) Fowles. cry the publishers of Robert Goddard‘s first novel. inviting comparisons between Past Caring

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or advantageous to the debutante

I to pursue this claim too vigorously. but there are superficial similarities.

Martin Radford. the wimpish Nicholas Urfe (10 nos‘jours. is an unemployed history graduate anti

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accepts an assignment to investigate the enigma of Edwin Strafford‘s sudden resignation from Asquith's

. Cabinet. All he has to go on is

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