Weather: heavy rain until late afternoon. Solo piping events were held in the groundkeepers’ equipment shed! Despite difficult conditions, 11 professionals and five juniors competed and a good standard of playing was heard. This games offers significant prize money, so pleasing to see a healthy level of entries despite the weather conditions and conflicting events.  Open Piobaireachd  1. Sandy Cameron – The Red Speckled Bull2. Brian Lamond (pictured) – MacKintosh’s…

Inveraray were declared Scottish Pipe Band Champions today at a damp Levengrove Park, Dumbarton. The weather had an effect on the crowd but there were still significant numbers enjoying the music and the sideshows. The win gave P/M Stuart Liddell his second championship of the season. The other G1 places went to: 2 Scottish Power3 Field Marshal4 SLOT5 Boghall6 Fife Police with the drumming going to Scottish Power. Each band had…

After a week of spectacular summer weather it was odds-on that rain would arrive just in time for the Scottish Pipe Band Championships now underway at Levengrove Park, Dumbarton. Weather experts at the UK Met Office are predicating heavy downpours later in the day and have issued the following ‘yellow’ warning: But pipe bands are a hardly lot and despite the exposed nature of today’s competition field, right on the…

A pleasant day weather wise at Mackie Academy Playing Fields. The picture shows the winners in the U-18 piping. U-18 March1 Hazel Whyte2 Jake Robertson3 Callum Ross U-18 S&R1 Jake Robertyson2 Hazel Whyte3 Kieran Walker Senior March1 Jeffrey Lawson2 Craig Black3 Ben Hall Senior S&R1 Jeffrey Lawson2 Craig Black3 Ben Hall Local prize: Callum Ross

The weather in the wilds of the Cairngorm National Park was ‘rather nasty at times with rain, but it wasn’t cold’. Eight pipers played. The contest was well supported by local distilleries. Champion Piper was P/M Ben Duncan and he is pictured abpve with trophies and spoils. The games committee arranged a presentation of an inscribed cuach to Mr Norman Matheson MBE, recognising his attendance at the games judging the…