Highland show habit lives

DESPITE the Highland show having been held at Ingliston for 50 years, the Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland, which organises the event, has continued the tradition of having a presidential team who represent the area where the show would have been held if it had continued its peripatetic lifestyle.

The 2011 Highland show would have been held in the Borders, and Lord Smith of Kelvin, Eshiels, Peebles, has been appointed as the next president of the RHASS. He is a former governor of the BBC and currently chairman of Scottish & Southern Energy and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games organising company.

He will take up his post of President this July along with four vice-presidents.

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They are, Joe Scott-Plummer DL, Morebattle, Kelso; David P Sturrock, Easter Ulston, Jedburgh; Robin J Forrest, Harderns Road, Duns; and John Campbell, Kirkton Manor, Peebles.

Reappointed honorary secretary was John Young, Skerrington Mains, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, with Allan Murray, Redden, Kelso, re-appointed honorary treasurer.

The Royal Highland Show, which has been held at the permanent site of Ingliston, Edinburgh, since 1960 was last staged in the Borders at Kelso in 1952. This year's show, the 170th and the 50th to be held at Ingliston, takes place on 24-27 June.

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