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Here is the third of our exclusive Q School interviews. Today we speak with the 2008 European Snooker Championship winner and former main tour player; David Grace from Leeds!

World Snooker hosted it's inaugural awards ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel, London today in support of the killing cancer charity. Many awards were given out on the night but the big one; the World Snooker player of the year went to the UK, Welsh and World Champion; John Higgins!

Two decades after playing host to a few top world snooker professionals in an invitational event in the country, India will get to see who's who of snooker on a regular basis. For, come February 2012, India will host its first-ever WPBSA ranking event.

Second in our exclusive interviews with Q School entrants. Today we speak to Dr Khizar Raoof from Hyderabad, India, who is putting his medical career on hold whilst he persues his passion; Snooker.

The draw and playing schedule for event 2 of the World Snooker Q School was released today. Event 2 runs from May 17th to May 22nd and sees all the players who didn't reach the semi-finals returning to try and qualify for the main tour.

On Q Promotions Chairman, Paul Mount, announced today that Terry Griffiths, the 1979 World Snooker Champion, widely recognised as the World's Leading Coach, has joined On Q Promotions as the new Director of Coaching.

This is the first of many exclusive interviews with some of the players entering this year's World Snooker Q School and bidding to get a place on the professional tour next season. Today we speak to an up and coming pro from East London; Sean "The Storm" O'Sullivan!

At this year's Betfred.com World Snooker Championship the BBC enjoyed it's greatest TV ratings for a Snooker event  in the past five years. And in China the semi-final match between Ding Junhui and Judd Trump was the highest rated sports programme of 2011 to date.

John Higgins came from 10-7 behind to beat Judd Trump 18-15 in the final of the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011 at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. This is John's fourth world title and his third ranking title of the season.

After fourteen days of top snooker we finally know the identity of one of the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011 finalists. It's only the 21-year-old qualifier from Bristol; Judd Trump! He came through in the high-quality semi-final 17-15 over Masters champion Ding Junhui.