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FREE PICTURE: Royal Highland Showcase Wicker Beltie and Tunnel Mural, Edinburgh, 14/06/2021:
Royal Highland Showcase Celebrates Dumfries and Galloway with One-Tonne Willow Bull:
A one-tonne wicker Beltie bull, hand sculpted in Dumfries and Galloway, has arrived in Edinburgh where it will be a centrepiece of this week’s Royal Highland Showcase - at the Royal Highland Showground on the fringes of Edinburgh
Nearby, the famous underpass where the finest livestock are led in and out of the Ingliston showground arena, has been painted with a magnificent mural depicting farm animals, horses, wildlife and scenes from south-west Scotland.
The Royal Highland Showcase runs online from today (Monday) 14th to (Sunday) 20th June (2021) and replaces the annual Royal Highland Show which cannot take place due to COVID-19 restrictions - see: https://www.royalhighlandshow.org
Each year RHASS invites a different region to act as “host”, allowing it to highlight the best of its rural economy. This year it’s the turn of Dumfries and Galloway which prides itself on its thriving creative community.
Pictured with the beltie is artist Trevor Leat (correct), whose sculptures are familiar from Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations, the Wickerman music festival and a variety of National Trust for Scotland properties. And artworks project leader Cathy Agnew (correct).
For more information see accompanying press release or contact Matthew Shelley at Matthew@ScottishFestivalsPR.Org - 07786 704 299.
Photography for Royal Highland Society of Scotland (RHASS) from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

New trustees join the Wigtown festival board

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Mysteries as people vanish on a Scots island

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