Miss Little Scotland, which is aimed at six to 12-year-olds, will take place at a city hotel. The winner of the black-tie event will go on an expenses-paid trip to Euro Disney in Paris, where she will take part in a "Face of the World" contest.
The Scottish Kinship Care Alliance will call for proper recognition and help from the authorities when it launches in Glasgow today.
However, the neanderthal behaviour at Glasgow University Union was depressing because it was carried out by people who might have been expected to know better.
Edited by his daughter, the journalist Jackie Kemp, it marks the 10th anniversary of his sudden death at the age of 63.
The move was said to be a rare public demonstration by a normally very private group of people, prompted by desperation. Kinship carers, usually grandparents, aunts or uncles, are the hidden army that has come to the defence of an estimated 15,000 children in Scotland whose parents are unfit to care for them through drug or alcohol addiction.
Yesterday morning a tour round the most popular islands, which are also protected areas for capercaillie, osprey, otter and oak woodland: Inchmoan, Inchtavannach, Inchconnachan, Inchcruin and Inchcailloch, revealed not a single camper or even any picnickers.
Larch trees at Arduaine Garden in Argyll, which was saved from closure by public donations of almost £2 million, have to be chopped down after sudden oak death (so-called because it killed oak trees in California) was discovered.
