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Lisburn & Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships at Moira Demesne

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Moira Demesne provided the perfect setting for the 2017 Lisburn & Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships on Saturday 5th August.  Organised in partnership with the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI), 48 pipe bands and 47 drum majors took part. Gilbert Cromie reports: Moira Demesne was the venue for the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships and despite a heavy shower of rain after the last…

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Mallaig & Morar Results (picture added)

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Seven played but a very high standard; cloudy then rainy conditions. Champion Piper Derek Midgley (r) is pictured above with Ceol Mor winner Dr Peter McCalister. Piob: Judge Archie Maclean 1 Peter McCallister 2 Derek Midgley 3 Ursa Beckford 4 Anna Kummerlow March: (LM Judge Iain MacFadyen) 1 Derek Midgley 2 Anna Kummerlow 3 Ursa Beckford 4 Craig Martin S/R: 1 John Angus Smith 2 Derek Midgley 3 Alan Clark…

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Results from Bridge of Allan Pipe Band Competition

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From our correspondent in another (muddy) field, this time in Stirlingshire. Best band on parade were 4 Scots Royal Regiment of Scotland (pictured above)…. For those overseas bands making the jaunt from North Berwick via their accommodation in Glasgow, to BofA, there might have been precious little drying time for brogues, kilts and glengarries. On an overcast early morning, rain was expected later in the day and it arrived around…

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Newtonmore Games Results

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The rain held off and was mainly warm and sunny throughout the day in Badenoch. Ben Duncan (pictured) of the Army School of Piping continued his tremendously successful summer round the games, once again being declared Champion Piper. Judges on the light music were Jimmy Jackson and Gordon Clark with John Don MacKenzie on the Piobaireachd. Champion Piper: Ben Duncan. Junior Champion Piper: Finlay Cameron. Piobaireachd 1 Ben Duncan 2 Darach…

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North Berwick Pipe Band Contest Results

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From our correspondent in the (muddy) field with brightening sky…..On a bright sunny morning and early afternoon (yes, really), the east coast competition was well attended with over 80 band performances. A little shower at one stage, the breeze kept it ‘Moving Cloud’ until around 4pm when the wind picked up and the sky darkened. And boy oh boy did the Pipe Band Club (Australia) get the worst of it…

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