English duo Victoria Palmer and Jessica Grimson are through to the quarter-finals in the women's beach volleyball after a 2-0 victory over Fiji's Laite Nima and Iliseva Ratudina.

A quick match and an easy victory on the sand.

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The media drop off point just a few hundred feet short of the beach volleyball venue has a proper grim view...

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People are dotted on the beach. The bus driver was chatting away to me telling me that the biggest shopping centre on Gold Coast has said their visitor numbers have fallen 65% during the Games.

Apparently television channels were flooded with fear stories about traffic during the Games and hence not only have locals left the area for a few weeks but the usual tourists who come for a break have swerved it too. The result? Relatively traffic-free roads and sparsely populated beaches.

Success in the ring!

Wales' Rosie Eccles is guaranteed at least a bronze medal.

She beat Tonga's Magan Maka by unanimous decision to move through to the semi-finals in the women's 69kg division.

Mike Henson
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

The headline act at many Australian sporting events.

We have only just crept into the afternoon at Carrara Stadium, but already patrons are refreshing with chilled lagers.

It is a Sunday.

Around the stadium there is a beer-garden feel with people sheltering from the sun and sinking schooners.

Jazz Carlin finishes second in her heat to progress as the fourth-fastest qualifier in the 800m freestyle. Scot Camilla Hattersley and England's Holly Hibbott have also booked their place in the final. That final takes place at 10:43 BST on Monday.

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After Wales' Coral Kennerley qualified for the women's 10m air rifle earlier on, England's Dean Bale and Welshman Michael Bamsey have just qualified for the final of the men's event.

The women's final has just begun. The men's final takes place at 04:30 BST.

That's the end of the road for Scotland's 18-year-old Megan Gordon after a dominant quarter-final performance from India's Mary Kom.

The 35-year-old wins on a unanimous points victory.

Welsh fighter Rosie Eccles is up next in the women's 69kg against Tonga's Magan Maka and you can watch that here.

Mike Henson
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

How the other half live.

These are the poshest seats in the house, reserved for VVIP buttocks.

I believe they might have been the perch from which Prince Charles and Camilla watched the opening ceremony. Maybe they are a little too comfy because a jet-lagged Camilla has caught a bit of flak in the local press for apparently kicking back and flicking through the programme during the speeches., external

And this is the money-can't-buy view you get.

In the women's basketball, England are leading Mozambique by nine at the half-time interval.

Both teams are outsiders in the pool, but a win would help England into a play-off against one of the top two sides in the weaker pool B.

You can watch the second half here.

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Wales' flagbearer Jazz Carlin is in the pool right now in the 800m freestyle, the last swimming event of this morning session.

We've already had the first heat and the top eight overall qualify for the final.

Watch on BBC One.

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Scottish teenager Megan Gordon is currently figthing Indian veteran Mary Kom in the quarter-finals of the women's 45-48kg.

Kom is 35, a member of the Indian parliament and a legend of the sport. But can the 18-year-old topple her?

Kom is well on top after the second round.

"Incredibly frustrated. We didn't take our chances, we weren't on it. It's just not good enough, we're much better than that," Hinch told BBC Sport after the defeat to India.

"We need to put this anger and frustration into the Malaysia game because we can still top this Pool.

"We have to kill sides early and we're not doing that at the moment.

"We haven't go time to dwell on this now and we have to now focus on Malaysia."

In 15 minutes we have the start of the first lawn bowls gold medal match of these Games.

After their win earlier, Scotland are playing Australia in the triples final.

You'll be able to watch that here.

Drama in the team table tennis! England's Tin-Tin Ho saves a match point before going on to win the third game of her singles rubber to cut her deficit to 2-1. It's best of five this singles match remember.

Ho gives it the big Rafa Nadal-eque clenched fist to celebrate. The rest of the English team are on their feet on the sidelines.

England are under pressure here after Kelly Sibley lost her opening singles rubber. Each team table tennis match is five rubbers overall so first to three wins.

Watch here.

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Another day, another race win for Adam Peaty.

Here he is setting the fastest time in the 50m breaststroke...

Mike Henson
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

Welcome to Carrara Stadium.

You may have caught a peek at this 35,000-capacity venue on Wednesday when it hosted the opening ceremony. But through the dark and rain of that night you may have missed it 'explosion-in-a paint-factory' colour sheme.

Complete with a flouncy roof on one of the stands, it looks like the sort of thing that Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen might have revealed to a mortified suburban couple on Changing Rooms.

Normally home to the Gold Coast Suns, the Aussie Rules tenants have upped sticks to Townsville and the Commonwealth Games organisers have slapped down a track on bits of the oval that are usually the reserve of big men in short shorts.

Today is the first day of sporting action and everything is looking box-fresh. Action starts at 05:00 BST.

Luke Reddy
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

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Prince Charles is getting some really positive press here following a speech at Government House on Friday.

This is his seventh visit to the state of Queensland and the local headline reads: “The wisdom of Prince Charming.”

A witty snippet above catches the eye but the paper carries his whole speech which touched on climate change and the need to sustain human jobs rather than switch to automation.

“The dignity of human work and interaction is essential to our wellbeing,” said the Prince of Wales.

James Guy pulled out of his event yesterday but he looks absolutely fine today. He cruises through to win his heat in the 100m butterfly and progress to the semi-finals as the fastest qualifier.

Scotland's Sean Campsie is second fastest after an impressive swim of his own.

England's Jacob Peters, Wales' Calum Jarvis and Northern Ireland's James Brown (he's feeling good) are also all through.

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SO CLOSE. Sarah Davies almost cleans a whopping 128kg but the Preston-born weightlifter just can't lock out the arms and finishes with a total of 217kg.

It's a silver medal for England.

Punam Yadav of India wins the gold, with Fiji's Apolonia Vaivai in bronze.

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