Hundreds of people paid their respects to a popular Inverness businessman.

Following the funeral service of shopkeeper George Rodgers, people lined the streets in Merkinch to say a final farewell.

Some donned Clachnacuddin and Chelsea football shirts in tribute to the 61-year-old who died on August 9, and many clapped as the hearse passed by.

Mr Rodgers, a former Merkinch Primary School and Inverness High School pupil, was a formidable football player, and was the captain of the Clach Boys Club team that played in the Inverness Street/Youth League in the 1970s.

He went on to work on oil rigs as a baker, and also at Burnett’s Bakery, before becoming the fourth generation of his family to run the well-known Rodgers Newsagents, in Grant Street in the heart of Merkinch.

He is survived by his wife Vivienne, children Paula and Ivan, and grandson Remi.

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