Malta's Claudio Cassar has won the men's tournament in the Blackball Pool Championships in Perth, Scotland.

Cassar won 8-7 in a tight game with South Africa's Paul Bennet.

Some 700 competitors are taking part in the event, which finishes tomorrow.

The organisers of the event, ISP Scotland, won the bid to host the bi-annual championships in Scotland for the first time, seeing off rival bids from Malta and France.

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