They involve finding a series of accoutrements with fantastic shivery names: sporran, ghillies, skean dhu. But I don't believe in reserving such flattering garments for weddings and funerals.

Whigham was jailed for more than three years at Selkirk Sheriff Court A man who carried out an attack with a skean dhu during a street fight has been jailed for more than three years.

Organisers have banned skean dhus from a Bannockburn re-enactment festival. The event next year, which marks 700 years since the historic conflict, has a no weapons policy, which includes the ...