Royal Highland Show
Royal Highland Show
Romany 1 bull takes top prize as beef interbreed champion
JUDGE Billy Glazebrook was in no doubt about the merits of his beef interbreed champion.
Peter Ross: Creature Comforts
'THIS is Johnny Depp," says Susan. "Don't you think he's handsome?" Johnny Depp, unmoved by the compliment, chews his straw with an expression somewhere between enigmatic and glaikit.
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Remember when: Take stock of historic gathering
THOUSANDS of people will make their way to Ingliston this weekend for the annual Royal Highland Show.
Royal Highland Show: Sheep exhibitors told to obey tail-docking rules
TOP-NOTCH showing conditions saw the sheep lines turned out to best effect under the critical eye of a near-record number of spectators at the show yesterday.
Royal Highland Show: Sheep tag review bid goes to MEPs
THE European Parliament will be asked next week to review how legislation of electronic identification (EID) of sheep has been implemented.
Royal Highland Show: Perthshire to the fore
PONIES from Perthshire were particularly successful on the first day of the show, with the Highland pony champion and reserve both coming from the county, while the Shetland champion was from Dunning.
Royal Highland Show: April target for devolving animal welfare
ANIMAL health budgets could be devolved to Scotland with the Scottish Cabinet secretary setting a target date for next April.
Royal Highland Show: International flavour for cattle while McLarens return in style
THERE was an multi-national feel to the cattle judging at yesterday's show with delegates from all over the world attending the World Shorthorn Conference and the European Hereford Conference.
Royal Highland Show special visitor offers high hope
THE swirl of farmers attending the first day of the Highland Show at Ingliston may have been largely pre-occupied with the livestock judging but the promises of Paulo de Castro, MEP, the chairman of the European Parliament agricultural committee, could, if realised, provide a major boost to the fortunes of farming.
RBS extends Highland Show cash deal
ROYAL Bank of Scotland has announced it is to extend its sponsorship of the Royal Highland Show by five years.
Royal Highland Show: RBS ends sponsorship doubt on eve of farmers' big day
SCOTLAND'S showcase farming event of the year gets under way today after securing a sponsorship boost from troubled banking giant RBS.
Royal Highland Show is on a natural high
WHEN the Royal Highland Show opens its doors tomorrow, David Dunsmuir will be among the hundreds of behind-the-scenes workers desperate for it to go off with a bang.
Wraps come off new-look Ingliston
A LONG-DELAYED overhaul of the home of the Royal Highland Show has taken a huge step forward after its organisers lodged plans for its site to the west of Edinburgh.
Rich harvest beckons for Highland Show
SCOTLAND'S major agricultural showpiece looks set to reverse the current economic trend by celebrating its most successful year ever.
Another VIP for Highland Show
PAOLO De Castro, chairman of the agriculture committee of the European Parliament, is the latest of a growing list of European VIPs to announce their intention of coming to the Royal Highland Show later this month.
Scotland to reap £70m from Royal Highland Show
THE Royal Highland Show is set to generate around £70 million for the Scottish economy, according to predictions from the event's organisers.
Highland Show to cut drinking hours
DRINKING hours at the Royal Highland Show are to be cut in a bid to tackle drunks who have plagued the farming event in recent years.
Highland Show a true winner on cash front
THE 2009 Highland Show produced the highest number of visitors to the four-day event and, on the back of these record numbers, the show organiser, the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, produced its best-ever financial performance.
Royal Highland chief decides to call it a day
RAY Jones, chief executive of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, is to retire in December.
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