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The following four pipers go forward to the MacGregor Memorial final later today: Brodie Watson-Massey Ruaridh Brown Campbell Wilson Laureano Thomas-Sanchez, USA

These four pipers will through to the final later today: Alastair Bevan Luke Kennedy Gregor MacDonald Angus MacPhee Judges: J Taylor, R Worrall

By The Editor With the World Pipe band Championships over for another year the international piping focus switches from bands to solos and in particular to today’s Argyllshire Gathering at Oban. The Gathering is one of the two main piping competitions in the world; only next week’s Northern Meeting in Inverness rivals it in importance in the solo piper’s calendar. (Tickets for the NM are now on sale here.) Contests…

Our man on a mission has followed Grade 2 all season, knows the bands inside out (the same as his socks). Let’s wind back a few days to the Worlds where he can be found with his good ear to the ground watching and listening, that helmet no impediment to his pertinent postulations….. Greetings from the sun kissed and simultaneously drenched arena 2, perched on the teeny tiny stand on…

The last two weeks have been so busy that we have been unable to publish details of some events. Here’s a catch up: Mey Highland Games, Caithness, August 3Angela Nicholson, Piping Convenor: ‘It was a scorching hot day (very unusual for Caithness!) and everyone had a great time. In the picture [above] judge Stuart Webster presents Callum Clark with the Alistair Norquay Memorial Challenge Cup, given for most points in…