By Jason Hughes, PA International

Beth Tweddle continued England's impressive performances in the Commonwealth Games gymnastics with a silver medal in the women's individual all-round event.

The 17-year-old from Liverpool added to her own silver medal with the women's team, while earlier today Kanukai Jackson picked up a gold to go with the one he won in the men's team event.

Tweddle finished just 0.363 points behind Canada's Kate Richardson, while Alana Slater - one of a trio of highly-fancied Australians going into this competition - could only manage the bronze.

South Africa-born Tweddle had never been outside of the top four during the four rounds of apparatus - beam, vault, uneven bars and floor - that make up this competition.

She was third going onto her final piece, the floor, but her score of 9.050 meant she overhauled Slater, who had two costly slip-ups on the beam moments earlier.

Tweddle had put herself firmly in medal contention with a superb score of 9.475 on the uneven bars - the apparatus on which she became the first British woman to win a European Championships medal, taking bronze earlier this year.

The Australians of Slater, Alexandra Croak and Sarah Lauren were favourites for the event after qualifying from the team event, where they won gold, in the top three places.

But Croak and Lauren each suffered two falls, while even top-ranked Slater stumbled and ended on her back during her opening floor routine.

Slater, who took silver in Kuala Lumpur four years ago, also twice slipped on her last apparatus - the beam - as Richardson, who had already completed her routine, realised the gold would be hers.

It is Canada's first gymnastics gold of the Games after one silver and two bronze, one of which was won by the women's team including Kate Richardson, who was 15th in this event at the Sydney Olympics.

Tweddle's England colleagues Nicola Willis and Becky Owen also performed admirably, finishing sixth and seventh respectively.

Tweddle rated this performance even better than her historic bronze at the European Championships in Greece.

She said: "This is a higher achievement because I have never had one of these silver medals for myself before.

"The Europeans were good but this feels even better, especially doing it in front of an English crowd."

While Slater slipped up on the beam, Tweddle held her nerve with a polished performance on the floor.

"I just had to focus on what I had to do and let everyone else get on with their job," she said.

"I knew I had done my floor routine many times before so I wanted to just go out there and aim for one of the good ones."

Meanwhile Richardson's display to win the gold was even more rewarding as she was still in a brace in March following major back surgery six weeks earlier.

The Canadian needed an operation to fuse together some of her vertebrae, which used to slide apart when she performed.

This was the 18-year-old's first competition since returning to training three months ago.

But she said: "I had done my preparation for this as much as any other event so I was confident in myself."

However not so confident that she brought her uniform needed for the medal ceremony on the podium.

"I was not expecting it all," she said. "My plan was to just go out and hit all my events spot on.

"When I went in the lead, winning was in the back of my mind, but I just kept trying to push it back further.

"Then when I landed from the uneven bars, I smiled because I was relieved it was done."