OPEN LIST

SPORT LIST

233 Cowgate. Edinburgh. 225 3013. 36‘) Art Club for6—l2 year-olds. For full details see above. Mon 16.

I Connections Alternative Health Festival Moir l lall and Mitchell Theatre. Granville Street. Glasgow. Info: 334 58-16. 10am-7pm. £2 (Student. ()Al’. L'B-ltii‘l ). A wide variety of stalls. talks and workshops on everything from Creative Visualisation to Back Aids. from Acupuncture to ()rganic Gardening. Continues tomorrow.

I Meet the Scots Lunch The L'ndercroft. St Andrew‘s and St George's Church. George Street. Edinburgh. 1nfo:5561836. £3.50(member £3). Sheila Colvin.lhc Associate Director of the Edinburgh Festival Society is today‘s guest of honour and speaker at the Saltire Society's monthly prandial symposium.

I Movement. Massage and Dance Salisbury Centre. 2 Salisbury Road. Edinburgh. 667 5438. 10am—5pm. £35(£20) for twodays. Bring loose. comfortable clothing and allow Sundara Forsyth to lead you through this workshop. which uses music and visualisation to ‘earth our creativity" and will progress to look at ways ofemploying these techniques to improve day-to-day

life.

SUNDAY 22

I Connections Alternative Health Festival Moir l lall and Mitchell Theatre. Granville Street. Glasgow. Info: 334 5846. 11am—6pm. £2 (Student. ()AI’. LIB-l0“ ). Seeond of two days. For full details see above. Sat 21.

I Movement. Massage and Dance Salisbury Centre. 2 Salisbury Road. Edinburgh. 667 5438. 10am—5pm. Second oftwo days. For full details see above. Sat 21.

I Women’s Morning Meditation Glasgow Buddhist Centre. 329 Sauchiehall Street. 3330524. 10.30am. Admission by donation. Two sessions followed by lunch. designed to allow women to practise together.

MONDAY 23

I 369 Gallery Winter Classes 36‘) Gallery. 233 Cowgate. Edinburgh. 225 3013. For full details see above. Mon 16.

TUESDAY 24

I 369 Gallery Winter Classes 369 Gallery. 233 Cowgate. Edinburgh. 225 3013. For full details see above. Mon 16.

I Lecture: Today's Flush and Tomorrow's Fracture-The Case For Hormone ReplacementTherapy Boyd ()rr Building. University Avenue. Glasgow. Info: 33‘) 8855 ext 42-10. 1.15pm. Free. l)rl.T. Boyle of the Royal Infirmary discussesthe relationship between the female menopause and brittle bones in later life. and recommends use of hormones as a preventative therapy.

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I 369 Gallery Winter Classes 369 Gallery. 233 Cowgate. Edinburgh. 225 3013. For full details see above. Mon 16.

I Well Woman Class St Brides Community Centre. Orwell Terrace. Edinburgh. 337 5543. 7.30pm. Free. Fiona O‘Kane leads the third of four 2-hour sessions on Confidence Building. All women welcome.

I ‘A Trip Down the Water at Leith' Stockbridge Library. Hamilton Place. 7pm. Free. Talk by Stanley Jamieson.

THURSDAY 26

I Edinburgh Bisexual Group: Phobias Lesbian and Gay Centre 58a Broughton Street. 557 3620. 7.30pm. Free. Frank discussion open to all. regardless of sexuality.

I Well Woman Class St Brides Community Centre. Orwell Terrace. Edinburgh. 337 5543. 9.30am—noon. Free. An informal. open session.

SPORT

I Sport is listed «diam by sport, thenby day. than byevent.

Saturday 14-Sunday 15

I Scottish SeniorlndoorChampionships Kelvin llall. Argyle Street. Glasgow. l-‘rom around 10.30am both days. Full programme of indoor events for both men and women. with several well-known names expected to participate.

BADMINTON Friday 20—Saturday 21

I East of Scotland Open Premier Meadowbank Sports Centre. London Road. Edinburgh. Friday from 5pm approximately : Saturday all day from around 9.30am.

BASKETBALL Ffiday13

WOMEN'S DIVISION ONE

I Edinburgh Royals v City ol Edinburgh Forrester High School. Broomhouse Road. Edinburgh. 7.45pm.

Sunday15

WOMEN'S AND MEN'S DIVISION ONE

I Rangers v Murray Livingston Barrhead Sports Centre. Barrhead. The women's match goes on first at 1.45pm; the men's follows at 3.45pm.

Friday 20

WOMEN'S DIVISION ONE

I Boroughmuir Aces v Bo‘ness Wildcats Meadowbank Sports Centre. London Road. Edinburgh. 6.30pm.

MEN'S DIVISION ONE

I Boroughmuir v James Watt .‘vleatlmylmnk SportsCentre. London Road. Edinburgh. 8.15pm.

Edinburgh

I Race Days Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. l’owderhall Stadium. Beaverhall Road. Edinburgh. liach meeting includes 10 races. starting at 7.30pm. £2.50Stand; £1.50Ground. Race programme free with admission.

Glasgow

I Race Days Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. Shawfield Stadium. Rutherglen Road. Glasgow. There are ten races in each meeting. starting at 7.45pm. £2.

FOOTBALL Saturday 14

PREMIER LEAGUE

I Celtic v St Mirren Celtic Park. Gallowgate. Glasgow. 3pm. With Rangers away to Aberdeen this afternoon. Celtic must be hoping to close the gap between them and the league leaders. Whether they do so willsurely depend far more on the result from Pittodrie than on this match. which the champions will be desperate to win.

I Dundee v Hibs Dens Park. Sandeman Street. Dundee. 3pm. An unpredictable encounter: Dundee's recent form is better. but llibs are still comfortably above them in the league. The home side‘s Joe McBride. playing against his old club. may well give the Edinburgh team cause to

ATHLETICS

regret having disposed of his services.

I Hamilton 1! Dundee Uld Douglas l’ark. llamillon ( 100 yards 1 lamilton West station ). 3pm. [Inited struggled to a 1-0 victory the last time they played bottom of the league llamilton. since when their form has improved immensely. to the extent that they must now be regardedas genuine championship contenders. Hamilton's morale must be low again.as the gap between them and ninth-placed Motherwell has grown. so an away victory is all too predictable.

I Hearts v Motherwell 'l'ynecastle Park. (iorgie Road. lidinburgh. 3pm. Having failed to beat Motherwell in twoattempts this season. I learts are likely to make it third time lucky this afternoon. despite their pitiful inconsistency.

FIRST DIVISION

I Airdrie V Falkirk Broomlield. Airdrie (5 mins Airdrie station). 3pm. A crucial match for both learns. still in the hunt for

FIVE NATIONS TOURNAMENT

Saturday 21 will see the biennial appearance on Edinburgh’s streets at middle-aged men dressed as leeks. Not only does this make a welcome sartorial change lrom younger men in saffron robes, navy blue bobble hats and baldy heids trying to 1109 you copies at ‘Back to Godhead’ magazine, it also hasa more worthwhile purpose, as the vegetable-imitators are actually - but then you knew already, didn't you?—Welsh rugby supporters. Scotland play hosts to Wales and Ireland this year in the Five Nations Tournament (the latter match being played on March 4), and travel to England (Feb 4) belore ending the competition in Paris on March 18. With each country only playing tour matches, consistency and good team organisation are sell-evidently the keys to success. France. perennial favourites despite their notorious lndiscipline under pressure, begin their campaign away to a weak-looking

promotion but in danger of losing ground to Dunfermline. A draw would be oflittle use to either. but is the most probable result nonetheless.

I Clyde v Morton Firhill. Firhill Road. Glasgow. 3pm.

I Clydebank v Ayr Kilbowie Park. Clydebank (2 mins from Singer station). 3pm.

I Dunlermline v Partick Thistle East End Park. llalbeath Road. Dunfermline. 3pm. I Kilmarnock v Oueen olthe South Rugby Park. Kilmarnock (10mins from bus station). 3pm.

I Meadowbank Thistle v Fortar Meadowbank Stadium. London Road. Edinburgh. 3pm. After last season‘s second place. Meadowbank are now in some danger of being relegated: desperate for points. they should be well capable ofa win against mid-table Forfar.

I Raith Rovers v St Johnstone Stark's Park. Pratt Street. Kirkcaldy. 3pm.

SECOND DIVISION

I Dumbarton v Albion Rovers Boghead. Dumbarton (10mins Dumbarton East station). 3pm. Rovers' 3—0 winover Stranraer confirmed them as championship favourites. and they are unlikely to slip up today against a Dumbarton side which appears to have been chronically demoralised by last season's demotion.

I Stirling Albion v Brechin City Annfield. Stirling ( 10 mins from stations). 3pm.

Saturday 21

PREMIER LEAGUE I Dundee Utd v Hearts'l‘annadice Park.

at? o. '\".‘is.’.“-"t€o’é'*§ Ireland outtit on the same day as the Welsh match.

The core of the Scottish team comes irom the Edinburgh side who on Hogmanay won the District Championship lorthe third successive year. David Sole, Kenneth and Iain Milne make up the lront row, with the latter (current weight not unadjacent to that of a giant panda) likely to captain his country tor the lirst time. In the back division, Scott Hastings and Douglas Wyllie will be joined by debutant Sean Lineen, a 27-year-old New Zealander who qualities by virtue at having a Scottish grandparent (Jackie Charlton eat your heart out). With Scotland being by larthe quickest ol the tour home nations in adopting the innovative rucklng tactics 01 Australia and New Zealand, the addition of a robust inside centre well accustomed to such a dynamic style at play can only bode well. With poor early season lurm and the recent detection to Rugby League olJonathan Davies, Wales must be regarded as underdogs. (Stuart Bathgate).

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