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Pipe dreams: a pipe band’s ‘world’ tour in Northumberland – in pictures


In 2001 after the foot and mouth crisis forced the cancellation of local shows and community events, the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland. Borrowing from the title of a TV show at the time, Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Scotland, they called it the World Tour of Coquetdale – and it continues to this day

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