Laurencekirk ploughman David Carnegie crowned Scottish champion
ByPhilippa Merry
Laurencekirk ploughman Dave Carnegie in action at last year's championships
Laurencekirk ploughman David Carnegie has one again lifted the supreme title at the 2016 Scottish Ploughing Championships.
He topped the record entry of Scots ploughers at the contest which took place at West Fenton Farm, near North Berwick, by kind permission of W Courtenay Morrison and Co, over the weekend.
Mr Carnegie, who runs family farming and contracting business DM Carnegie alongside his brothers from their base at Steelstrath Farm, has ploughed competitively since the early 1980s.
The former world champion first stood overall at the Scottish Championship contest 25 years ago and has been reversible champion three times in the intervening years.
To commemorate his win Joyce Mitchell, from Haughs of Ballinshoe, Forfar, presented Dave with the new Mitchell Family Perpetual Trophy.
Current and six-times conventional world champion Andrew Mitchell Snr and current and three-times reversible world champion Andrew Mitchell Jnr adjudicated the contest.
The overall conventional champion was Ian McDonald from Keith.fa
Laurencekirk ploughman David Carnegie crowned Scottish champion
