Dating back to 1851, the Thornton Highland Gathering is a grand old age this year but looks set to deliver a day as colourful, exciting and firmly traditional as ever. Kicking off with a rousing pipe band march, what follows is day of edge-of-the seat competitive action featuring heavyweight and track and field events, the fiercely contested tug o’ war and the ‘De’il Tak the Hindmost’, a gruelling cycle race which draws cyclists near and far. The programme also features Highland dancing, solo piping competitions and the drum majors contest.
