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Last night saw the Scotland Women suffered a right royal thumping by Switzerland, losing 1-8 after only 6 ends. To make matters worse, they then lost 4-5 against Turkiye this morning , solely due to a loss of 3 shots in the final end. The Scots now have to play three of the "weaker" teams with Hungary at 2pm today, Estonia tomorrow at 7am and Lithuania at 5pm tomorrow. Mind you I could have used that term about Turkiye, so let's take nothing for granted.

For the Men, Scotland narrowly beat Norway 6-5 yesterday, with the advantage of playing last stone in the final end. They then went on to comfortably dispose of England by 8-1 after 6 ends, with the Mouat brothers in opposition. In today's game, they played Switzerland in a top-of-the-table clash, with Moaut missing a long double-take-out by an inch or so to win the game with his last stone. They're now playing an extra end, with a game against Austria at 6pm tonight and then Italy tomorrow at noon.

England had earlier lost against Netherlands yesterday by 5-7 and have just lost to Norway by 4-9. They now play Czechia at 6pm tonight, then tomorrow will play Switzerland at 12 noon.

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And Bruce Mouat and Co survive thanks to an excellent last stone from Bruce, to leave the Swiss skip a tricky last stone, which narrowly failed.