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World Pipe Band Championship special

They’ve won the World Championships a record 15 times but have failed in their last four attempts to lift the top trophy.

Now, after falling to their lowest ranking in 20 years can the Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band escape the clutches of the also-rans to triumph once more?

So much can go wrong. So says William Donaldson, the peppery author of Pipers, his myth-blitzing book about bagpiping.