The Scottish Schools Badminton Group will once again be running a residential coaching course at sportscotland National Centre, Inverclyde this summer and places are still available

The course, aimed at both primary and secondary pupils, will run from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 August 2012.

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David Gillespie has been honoured for his work in Para-Badminton at the Daily Record's Our Heroes 2012 awards ceremony.

But typical of the East Kilbride man's commitment to the sport, he was unable to collect his Sporting Hero award from Liz McColgan on the awards night at the Glasgow Thistle Hotel as he was at the English 4 Nations Para-Badminton tournament in Nottingham. So his wife Dorothy accepted the award on his behalf.

KIRSTY GILMOUR, who produced one of her best tournament performances to reach the semi-finals of the Forza Denmark International at the start of May, returns to action this weekend when she tackles the four-day Spanish International in Madrid.

The 18-year-old from Bothwell faces Swiss player Nicole Schaller in the women's singles first round on Friday with Austrian seventh seed Simone Prutsch the likely opponent in the last 16.

Alan Oliver, Kirsty Jones and doubles players Grant Hunter, James Pert and David Adie struck gold at the English 4 Nations Para-Badminton Championships as Scotland scooped numerous podium finishes over the weekend at the sports centre of Nottingham University.

Alloa’s Oliver took top honours in the Standing SL3 Half court men's singles beating team-mate Niall Jarvie (Crieff) in the semi-finals before toppling England’s Daniel Bethell in straight games 21-12 21-17 in the final.

Glasgow pair Hunter and Pert won the LD Men's doubles Class 1 beating Mount Vernon’s Drew Daly and England's Sam Muschamp in the closest of finals 21-16 21-23 21-19. Hunter was also runner-up to Muschamp in the LD Men's singles Class 1 with Pert and Daly both reaching the semi-finals. 

Adam Pringle is the new Scottish National Under 11 champion.

The top seed cruised through his group with four emphatic wins then defeated Seamus Russell of Edinburgh 21-13 in the quarter-finals and Dundee’s Kyle Middleton 21-9 in the semi-finals.

Edinburgh’s joint third seed Michael Farnood came through the bottom half to give Pringle his toughest test but the Giffnock youngster triumphed 21-15 in the final.