Eve Muirhead’s rink won the women’s title at the Scottish Curling Championships in Perth,
Muirhead and her team of Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Sarah Reid beat Lockerbie’s Hannah Fleming by 6-5 to win the title they last won in 2012.
They were unable to play last year because they were competing in the Sochi Winter Olympics, where they won a silver medal.
This game was tight all the way and the breakthrough for Muirhead came in the eighth end when she scored three points for a 6-3 lead.
Fleming then scored one point in the ninth and stole a single in the tenth, but this was not enough and Muirhead regained the title.
Eve and her team now represent Scotland at the World Women’s Curling Championship in Sapporo, Japan next month.
Defending champion Ewan MacDonald from Inverness beat the Olympic silver medallists skipped by Lockerbie’s David Murdoch to retain the men’s title.
Murdoch was the pre-event favourite to take the men’s title but his final against MacDonald turned on what was a disastrous fifth end for his team, when they gave up a score of four points to give MacDonald a half-time 5-3 lead.
Murdoch’s team fought hard in the second half of the game but eventually, MacDonald was left with a simple take-out in the tenth end to win by 9-6.
The MacDonald team of Duncan Fernie, Ruaridh Greenwood and Euan Byers now return to the men’s World Championship for the second successive year, and will represent Scotland in Canada at the end of next month.