A recital headlining Champion Piper Stuart Liddell is to be held early next year. The venue is Airdrie Working Men’s Club in Lanarkshire. The date is Friday, February 13. Supporting Stuart will be Cameron May, and a quartet from 16 times World Champions, Shotts & Dykehead. By Dan Nevans The recital is entitled ‘The Peter MacLeod Senior Memorial Recital’. Peter MacLeod Sr., originally from the island of Lewis, was Pipe…

Another pipe band, the Vale of Atholl Grade 2, has folded. However, the name will continue with the organisation’s newly-promoted Grade 3b band. P/M Jamie Falconer has also decided to leave the band organisation. In a statement the Vale said the decision to disband had not been taken lightly. Focus will now be on building up their 3b band with a programme of youth development. The statement read: ‘The decision…