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Edinburgh Monarchs 55, Newcastle Diamonds 40

NEWCASTLE Diamonds got off to a slow start at the Lothian Arena last night with a 5-1 against them in the opening heat.Read

Tigers call-up for Skidmore

TONIGHT at Berwick’s Shielfield Park (7pm first race) the Bandits take on the Sheffield Tigers in the final and decisive Premier Trophy match of 2009 with the original attempt running out of curfew time last month.Read

Newcastle Diamonds 55, Somerset Rebels 37

DESPITE missing Kenni Larsen, still overseas as his Grand Prix Qualification round had been delayed 24 hours, Diamonds raced to their best score of 2009.Read

Berwick Bandits 51, Rye House Rockets 42

THE Berwick Bandits went into Saturday’s League match three riders down, but the new-look side pulled together magnificently to take a well-deserved win.Read

Bandits handicapped by missing riders

RYE House Rockets, the team that pipped the Berwick Bandits to the Premier League title in 2005, return to Shielfield Park tonight at 7pm to test the border side in the Premier League.Read

Sheffield Tigers 53, Newcastle Diamonds 42

THE Newcastle Diamonds made an unexpectedly good start at Sheffield last night in the Premier Trophy,  a track where they usually enjoy little success.Read

Diamonds aiming to beat jinx at track

NEWCASTLE Diamonds travel to the Owlerton Stadium tonight for a Premier League match with the Sheffield Tigers, a venue that has seen little success for the Tyneside team over many seasons, writes LAWRENCE HEPPELL.Read

Newport Wasps 44, Berwick Bandits 45

THE Berwick Bandits achieved a spectacular win at Queensway Meadows to take three well-deserved league points.Read

Newcastle Diamonds 48, Birmingham Brummies 45

THIS encounter was always going to be tight and so it proved. And there was a narrow escape in heat one with the Brummies’ James Cockle falling on the fourth bend.Read

Adam McKinna replaces out-of-form Dane

NEWCASTLE Diamonds line up at home against the Birmingham Brummies tomorrow with Adam McKinna back in at reserve, replacing the out-of-form Dane Casper Wartmann.Read

Diamonds put brakes on Wortmann

NEWCASTLE Diamonds’ management have axed Danish reserve Casper Wortmann from the side with immediate effect, writes LAWRENCE HEPPELL.Read

Newcastle Diamonds 51, Redcar Bears 39

THIS local derby was simply a must-win match for the Redcar Bears who were clinging on to a chance of Premier Trophy semi-final qualification.Read

Berwick Bandits 47, Scunthorpe Scorpions 43

BERWICK Bandits opened their League account in style last night at Shielfield Park.Read

Scorpions aiming to sting Bandits

BERWICK Bandits play host to the Scunthorpe Scorpions in their opening home Premier League match of the season tonight, with the visitors feeling they have a chance by catching the Bandits on the rebound from two sizeable away defeats in the last three days, writes LAWRENCE HEPPELL.Read

Sheffield Tigers 62, Berwick Bandits 33

THE Sheffield Tigers have not had the best of seasons so far – until they finally clicked against Berwick last night.Read

King’s Lynn Stars 58, Berwick Bandits 32

THE Berwick Bandits found the early going hard at King’s Lynn’s Norfolk arena last night in the Knockout Cup quarter-final, first leg, leaving themselves a tough 26-point deficit to overcome in the return on June 13.Read

Stars expect tough test from Bandits

BERWICK Bandits are back in Premier League Knockout Cup action tonight at the home of King’s Lynn Stars in Norfolk, only 11 days after knocking out the Stoke Potters from round one.Read

Diamonds’ party is cut short by rain

THE Newcastle Diamonds took a break from official racing yesterday evening at the Newcastle Stadium, 80 years to the day that the club opened its doors for the first time in 1929.Read

Berwick Bandits’ fixture hit by rain

BERWICK Bandits, whose Premier Trophy clash with Sheffield in Yorkshire on Thursday evening was rained off, suffered the same fate at Scunthorpe last night as their Premier League fixture against the Scorpions was a late morning victim of the torrential rain which hit the country.Read

Bandits wash-out

BERWICK Bandits move on to the Scunthorpe Scorpions tonight having been washed out with a postponement at Sheffield last night (a re-staging date has yet to be arranged).Read