Triathlete and veteran endurance runner Bob Brown won Sunday’s Tresco Marathon in a time of 3 hours, 2 minutes and 58 seconds.

122 runners took part in the 8th annual race, which covers seven-and-a-half laps of the island.

The event raised ?100,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, bringing the total raised since 2000 to ?500,000.

Brown, from Callington in Cornwall, won the marathon in 2005 and shared victory with Chris Legard in 2001.

He has run across Australia, America and Europe and allegedly put his triumph down to the “seven pints of lager” he drank the previous night.

Angie Sadler set a new ladies’ record of 3 hours, 14 minutes and 53 seconds.

The primary school teacher from Tewkesbury has run the London marathon eight times.

Forget London ? Tresco is the place to be for marathon runners on Sunday.

Some 123 competitors will be lining up at 9.30am for the 8th annual Tresco marathon in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

Taking place on the same day as the Flora London Marathon, the 26-mile race covers seven-and-a-half laps of the island.

And despite the absence of celebrity visitors like Bill Bryson, Jenny Agutter, Blake Morrison and Charlie Dimmock, this year’s event is sure to produce its own stars.

Among them will be Olaus Mclean, a commercial pilot from Hayle who paddled from Sennen Cove to Bryher on Friday in just nine hours.

The 35-year-old father-of-two will run in the marathon before paddling the 28 miles back to the mainland in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the RNLI.

The Tresco Marathon began in 2000 when Peter Hingston and then Island Hotel manager Philip Callan decided to raise money for cystic fibrosis, from which Peter?s daughter Jade suffers. Total funds raised to date are approaching half a million pounds.

Light rain is forecast for race day.

Five Islands School pupils, Islanders and visitors are invited to take a voyage through the universe when a travelling planetarium visits the Islands.

Owned and presented by Simon Ould, an experienced science teacher with a lifelong passion for astronomy and science, the Space Odyssey dome travels throughout the South West of England and South Wales and is now orbiting Scilly.

Children from all sites at the Five Islands School will be attending shows throughout April 19 and the dome will be open to the general public at 6.00pm and 8.00pm in the Secondary School Hall.

Tickets are limited but are on sale from the Early Years Office at Carn Thomas and the Tourist Information Centre, priced ?2.20 each.

For information contact Helen McGuinness, Acting Early Years and Youth Officer on 01720 423680 or e-mail hmcguinness@scilly.gov.uk.

For more information on the dome, log onto Simon?s website at http://www.spaceodyssey.co.uk

Police are appealing for witnesses after vandals attacked the St Mary?s community bus.

A group of up to six youths were seen kicking the side of the blue bus and throwing breeze blocks in the early hours of Easter Sunday.

They were chased away but a smaller group returned with bikes some 20 minutes later.

Lights, mirrors and windscreen wipers were damaged.

The group also forced the door open and entered the vehicle, which was parked behind Springfield Court.

The bus has been vandalized up to 10 times over the past year.

Anyone with information is asked to contact St Mary’s police station on 01720 422444.

A medieval studies expert claims to have made a discovery that could prove King Arthur was more than a myth.

Dr Alan Seymour-Lewis has found Dark Age scrolls which seem to link the legendary king to the Isles of Scilly, said to be all that remains of the lost land of Lyonesse.

Dr Seymour-Lewis, 51, is in charge of a restoration project at Britain?s oldest chapel, the 6th century St Peter?s-on-the-Wall in Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex.

He claims his team have discovered a sealed lead box containing early Saxon manuscripts behind a 1300-year-old oak panel.

When carbon dated, they are expected to date from the 8th or 9th century.

The ancient vellum scrolls, though in remarkable condition, are all but indecipherable, said Dr Seymour-Lewis, one of the UK?s leading medieval scholars.

They seem to be a family history of a Saxon noble called Bothwin, a Thane (servant) of King Cynewulf.

The Saxon Chronicles claim Cynewulf was killed in battle by Cyneard in 784, dating the manuscripts to the mid 8th century at the earliest.

In one possible reference to King Arthur, an Eanbald, an ancestor of Bothwin, died in a battle in West Wales (Cornwall) against the army of King Athor of Scylia (perhaps Scilly) in the year 629.

There is a legend that King Arthur reigned in Lyonesse, a large island off Lands End which was submerged in the sea.

The reference accords with the history of the period, in which the Romano Britons were in retreat from the invading Saxons, finally settling in the South West and Wales.

Although the document is not contemporary with King Arthur, it is the only find to date that indicates he did exist. And it places him at the time and in the part of the country that would be expected.

Professor Seymour-Lewis said: ?We are very excited by this find. There is a lot of work to be done yet, but I am confident that we will be able to add significantly to our knowledge of Dark Age Britain.

?But I don?t think we will learn much about Camelot!?