The saga of a Montreal bagpiper who was fined $221 by Montreal police for carrying a Sgian Dubh, a small ceremonial Scottish dagger, has come to an end. In a Facebook post Friday, Jeff McCarthy ...

The organisers of the centrepiece event to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn have this week announced a U-turn over the wearing of sgian dubhs. The organisers of the ...

A Canadian bagpiper who generated huge public support after being fined for carrying a Sgian Dubh 18 months ago has had his case dropped and his knife returned. Jeff McCarthy from Montreal was ...

A CANADIAN bagpiper of Scots descent has had his sgian-dubh confiscated and fined for carrying a knife. Kilted Jeff McCarthy was walking down the street in Montreal when police spotted the ...

A prominent Canadian bagpiper has won overwhelming public support after police fined the man for carrying a sgian-dubh. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

Long-standing Liberal Democrat MP Charles Kennedy has described his loss of the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency as "the night of long sgian dubhs". The SNP's Ian Blackford won the seat that ...