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Best-ever piping championships bag £16 million for Scotland

A week-long celebration of piping drew to a close yesterday with organisers proclaiming it the most popular ever, generating a record £16 million for the Scottish economy.

Championships slideshow

A record-breaking 55,000 people were on Glasgow Green on Saturday to see the St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band from Dublin win the World Pipe Band Championships.