well, gemma dryburgh will be making her debut at the age of 30. tour. she's ranked inside the world's top 50. and no surprise that she would get one of the four captain's wild card picks. the norwegian captain has gone scandinavian with the other three selections madeleine sandstrom, another strong player from the ladies european tour and the lpga. she is playing her third solheim cup, as is emily kristine pedersen. no surprise that she's been called up. and although caroline heswall is ranked 120 in the world, she's been pretty consistent on the list this year on the tour this year and her captain describes her as the bulldog. she will bring a kind of spirit that will be needed by europe when they seek to win this solheim cup for a record third time in a row. a tyneside club has been invited to take part in an exhibition tournament on the pitch at twickenham ahead of england's world cup warm—up game against fiji on saturday. for at least two members of this over—50s club, the day will bring back some stirring memories — as mark tulip reports. the

scotland's gemma dryburgh has been named as a wild card for next month's solheim cup in spain.captain suzann pettersen has named dryburgh along with three other wild cards for next month's tournament. europe will bid to claim an unprecedented third straight victory in spain when it tees off on the 22nd of september. more on a website but for now that is all of our sport. the number of people who died due to drug misuse in scotland last year fell to the lowest level for five years. new figures released by the national records of scotland show 1,051 people died of drug misuse in 2022. that's 279 fewer deaths than the previous year. it's the first significant drop following several years of record high totals. the glasgow city council area had the highest rate of drug misuse deaths over a five year period, closely followed by dundee city. however, drug misuse remains a big issue in scotland. it continues to have the worst drug death rate in the uk and the rest of europe. let's discuss further. let's talk to anne marie ward, ceo of faces and voices of recovery a uk—wide charity bas

scotland's gemma dryburgh will make her solheim cup debut next month.charley hull and georgia hall had already made the team courtesy of their world rankings. pga tour commissioner jay monahan has defended the decision to join forces with saudi arabia's public investment fund to bring golf�*s tours together. monahan, who stepped down from his role for a month due to anxiety shortly after the proposed deal was announced injune, said he was back to full health and happy they had found a way for golf to move forward. i feel a strong as i felt in a long time and ifeel i feel a strong as i felt in a long time and i feel inspired and ready to go from the position we are in, ultimately, to generate a positive outcome for the pga tour. this is a complex situation and if you are a player, director or member of the pack, this is more complex than any other period of time. and ifeel like we have listened, we have responded and now we have the right people, the right process in place for us to be able to move forward and determined that future. the number of hours

scotland's gemma dryburgh has been named as a wild card for next month's solheim cup in spain.t's been a day of sunshine and a few showers around, and the weather won't be changing in a hurry over the next couple of days. so a bit more of the same tomorrow, some sunshine around — warm sunshine in the south, and a few showers mostly towards the north and the west, too. now, here is the position of thejet stream at the moment — it's curling around in the atlantic and heading its way through central parts of the uk. to the north of thatjet stream, slightly cooler and more breezy conditions, whereas further south, we've got that warmer air affecting southern parts of the uk but certainly affecting much of central and southern europe, with that hot air drifting in from the south. we have got red alerts for those high temperatures, really from parts of portugal, spain, through southern france, northern italy, towards croatia, as well. so intense heat wave through the middle of the week, still ongoing for southern parts of europe. but closer to home, here is the satellite and the rada