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After two tough days of orienteering, the result of the relays were quite likely to be a war of attrition over the course of the weekend rather than on the day itself, and so it proved with easy victories as Interlopers retained the men's title and Edinburgh University took the women's honours.

For the first time in almost 15 years, Dunalastair played host to orienteering with the first full day of competition at the JK as two of the world's best, Scott Fraser and Linnea Gustafsson, showed their prowess through the tough Scottish forest and moorland.

Think you know the Craig a Barns (JK Day 3) map well enough? Ever wanted an edge over your JK rivals? Well now you can. By, perfectly legally, constructing the full map piece by piece you will no doubt get to know this iconic picture of Scottish Orienteering as well as its' many mappers.

This weekend at opposite ends of the country, the first trophies of the UK orienteering season were dished out, to the British Night Champions in the New Forest and the Scottish Night Champions in Deeside.

British Internationals Scott Fraser and Claire Ward comfortably won at the Edinburgh City Race as the Big Weekend once again played host to the opening round of the Nopesport and Scottish Urban Orienteering Leagues.

A couple of weeks ago the Penrith Urban Race rounded off the 2011 Nopesport Urban Orienteering League, which started in Edinburgh and visited Glasgow, Filey, Nottingham, Lossiemouth, Guildford, Sheffield, Lincoln, Cambridge, Skipton, Chester en-route to deciding the overall standings in the Penrith Finale.

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Doug Tullie and Tessa Hill were crowned the King and Queen of the Forest last weekend as Wharncliffe Woods, near Sheffield, hosted over 1000 competitors at the British Orienteering Championships.

Hector Haines won an exciting JK Classic at Sieve Croob and with it the overall title as he destroyed the field with a two minute victory over Matt Crane. In the women's race Claire Ward was victorious after a poor middle distance, while Tessa Hill took the overall JK title with a strong second place on the day.

The 2011 JK started in exciting fashion today with a sprint at Stranmills College in Belfast, with Sarah Rollins and Pippa Archer sharing the spoils with joint 1st place, while in the men's race Matt Crane was a convincing winner ahead of Murray Strain and John Rocke.

We take a look at some of the top orienteering events taking place around the UK from April through to July, taking a look at events including the JK, British and Scottish Championships, WOC selection races and Harvester Relays, as well as some of the Nopesport Urban League races.

A secret elite reporter starts their season taking in all the thrills and spills of the British Night Championships last weekend.

The 2011 UK Cup series starts this weekend with the British Night Orienteering Championships, and now stretches through the major spring races into autumn taking in the Scottish 6 Days and London City Race before a mass start final in October.

Tessa Hill (HOC) and Jonathan Crickmore (SO) were the Open winners of this year's Brighton City Race which took place on Wednesday evening 15 December 2010. The Vet classes were won by Christine Robinson (SLOW) and Kenny Leitch (SO). Organiser Rob Lines gives us an overview of the organisation behind it, and their success in getting a large number of newcomers along.

A petition is underway in a bid to stop the Government selling off areas of Britain's nationally owned forest.