SWIMMING: Todd Cooper is continuing to create a splash after achieving another goal by qualifying for the Junior European Swimming Championships.

The Kidderminster 17-year-old, who is on a swimming scholarship at Scotland's University of Stirling, made the grade at the Long Course National Swimming Championships in Manchester.

Cooper is now ranked men's number five in Great Britain for the 100m butterfly and is among the world's up-and-coming juniors.

And the teenager will swim the stroke as he represents GB in the European competition in Malta during July.

His father Gary said: "He's really happy. This time last year in the same competition, he was eighth overall and now he's fifth.

"And in March he swam the Scottish Senior Nationals and broke the Scottish record for the butterfly in a short-course pool."