Sporting Digest: Bowls

BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS (Ayr): England bt Ireland 129-96 (England skips first): (D J Cutler 20 P Smyth 18, G Smith 23 S Adamson 16, A Allcock 23 E Parkinson 18, J Bell 27 C Davis 16, D Ward 18 N Graham 13, A E Thomson 18 S Allen 15).