The Scottish Thistles improved in the second period and closed the gap to just two goals at the half-time break.

Barbados are continuing to shoot well, though, and Scotland will need to be at their best to overturn the lead.

It was tight but England's Tiffany Porter sneaked through to the women's 100m hurdles final in the automatic qualifying places.

All five home nations divers are through to today's 3m springboard final.

England's Ross Haslam finished highest, in third, while his brother Jack grabbed the last qualifying place in 12th by just 0.7 points.

Jack Laugher, who won the 1m title yesterday, had a terrible fifth dive but still finished fifth.

James Heatly of Scotland, the 1m bronze medallist and Welsh 15-year-old cliff diving champion Aidan Heslop are also through

The early stages of this women's heptathlon high jump are under way.

There's no sign of Katarina Johnson-Thompson yet as she'll enter proceedings once the athletes currently competing get the bar a little higher.

Katherine O'Connor of Northern Ireland and England's Niamh Emerson are also yet to show their hand. No athletes have been eliminated yet.

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Annie Last is a lap away from the gold medal. The Englishwoman has extended her advantage to 52 seconds ahead of her team-mate Evie Richards. Barring a disaster, it'll be a one-two for Team England. Scotland's Isla Short is still fifth, hopes of a bronze medal fading.

Steve Cram
Commentator on the Gold Coast

That was very tight indeed. Yanique Thompson produced a cracking run after Danielle Williams was the clear winner.

Tiffany Porter will be pleased with that, qualifying automatically.

Both of our English athletes are safely through to the final, with Barrett a fastest loser.

Tiffany Porter fades 50m from home in a very tight race and just scrapes through in an automatic qualifying spot in third thanks to a big dip on the line.

Her time is 12.99 seconds but Jamaican Danielle Williams is 0.3 seconds clear at the front. She looks a good bet for gold.

It's tight between second, third and fourth but then a gap to fifth and that means England's Alicia Barrett gets through to the final as a fastest loser from the first heat.

Scotland's Isla Short is going backwards I'm afraid. She's down to fifth in the women's time trial. English leader Annie Last is now 31 seconds in front of her team-mate Evie Richards, who is over a minute ahead of Canada's Haley Smith in third.

Colin Jackson
Two-time world 110m hurdles champion on the Gold Coast

It's a very busy morning and all of these races are going to be red hot.

Young Nigerian Amusan will be very pleased with that performance, she was nice and controlled.

Megan Simmonds got out well but she made too many mistakes. She went from leading to battling with Alicia Barrett for that third qualifying spot.

Barrett will have to wait to see if she is a fastest loser. Let's not write her off, she may still go through.

England's Alicia Barrett misses out on the automatic places by a matter of milimetres, finishing in fourth place two hundredths behind Megan Simmonds of Jamaica.

Nigeria's Oluwatobiloba Amusan wins the heat in 12.73 seconds.

The big home nations' hope Tiffany Porter goes in this next heat.

Scotland have got a bit of work to do to get into this game after a slow start in their classification match.

The Thistles are only shooting at 50% so far, while the Barbadians have been much more accurate at 87%.

Next on the track is the women's 100m hurdles. This is effectively a semi-final with just the two heats.

England's Alicia Barrett is in this first heat along with Welsh hurdler Caryl Granville.

The top three progress plus the two fastest losers.

Luke Reddy
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

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Yesterday I ran into Eilidh Bridgeman and Caroline Laing. Some 20 minutes later, I had immense respect for them.

They are the Cayman Islands squash doubles team and they were absolutely thumped in all three of their pool matches (and I mean thumped).

They explained to me how they balance squash with work and children, how they don’t have many great players to train with and how one aim at the Games was to make a match last 20 minutes. None of them did.

"It's one of those things where everyone feels a bit sorry for you and everyone wants the underdog to put up a fight," says Bridgeman.

"The scoreline doesn't reflect some of the rallies we were having.

"We don't have a doubles court on Cayman, they are bigger than a singles court, and that is a major thing. I think we have to fly to Philadelphia to get access to a doubles court."

Scotland have all-but secured their place in the women's triples gold medal match with a very impressive performance back at Broadbeach.

They are leading Canada 18-7 with two ends remaining. In the other semi-final Australia have beaten England.

We told you that the heptathlon high jump would begin at 02:00 BST but there has been a short delay. We are expecting that to start in around 10 minutes.

Don't worry you haven't missed anything.

He's done it! Robert Paxton holds his nerve to see off New Zealand's Shannon McIlroy and reach the men's singles quarter-finals.

The Englishman earns another double to win 21-16 at the Broadbeach Bowls Club.

All over in the men's triple jump, the qualification round is complete and England's Nathan Douglas has progressed in seventh place with a jump of 16.27m.

Dominica's Yordanys Duranona Garcia finishes first in qualifying by 36cm with his effort of 16.75m.

The final takes place in Saturday.

England's Annie Last has finally made her move, taking over the lead from team-mate Evie Richards.

Last won silver at the 2017 World Championships - a first ever medal for a British female at the global gathering - after she won gold – the first by a GB woman for 20 years – at the World Cup round in Lenzerheide.

She takes a swig of a water (or electrolyte drink) as she looks to extend a four second advantage.

Richards is still second, but is starting to be reined in by Canada's Emily Batty in third. Scotland's Isla Short is in fourth.

The ninth-10th play-off is under way in the netball competition with Barbados taking on Scotland.

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Another impressive dive from England's Jack Laugher. He'd have to forget what he was doing and just bomb into the pool not to qualify for the final. His latest effort is 72.15 and that again moves him into first place.