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THERE was a taste of things to come in the High Street yesterday lunchtime as Australia’s Knox Grammar School Pipes and Drums Band was drumming up support for tomorrow’s Piping Inverness extravaganza.

The inaugural event, which incorporates the European Pipe Band Championships, takes place in Bught Park and is expected to attract more than 20,000 people to the area as well as in excess of 4000 pipers and drummers.

It will be the first in a three-year deal which is set to bring a multimillion-pound boost to the local economy each time it is held.

Full story in today's Courier.

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