All Star badminton coaching will be running weekly group fitness session for all those interested in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. The sessions will be controlled by All Star badminton coach Steven Chappell and will involve the following:

Jas Bedi, Coaching & Development Officer for BADMINTONscotland Court Officials is running a scoring training workshop to assist tournament organisers this Sunday 12 July at the Cockburn centre from 10am - 11am. If anyone is interested in attending please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . The workshop is free of charge.

BADMINTONscotland today paid tribute to their former secretary David McIntyre, who died peacefully on Friday.

David, a keen badminton and tennis player, was secretary with the Scottish Badminton Union from 1985 to the early 90’s, having been elected to the Union's council in 1970.

He also served on the Finance Committee and the General Purposes Sub-Committee and was treasurer of the Cockburn Centre for a number of years.

Alistair Casey suffered defeat in a tight three set match at the hands of Russian Nikolay Ukk today, in the second round of the 2009 White Night International in St Petersburg.

The fourth seed won the first end 21-19, but ended up suffering a 21-12 21-12 reverse in the final two sets.