BOWHILL People's Burns Club members were delighted with the talent displayed at their annual competition for children.

The club held its Annual Primary Schoolchildren's Burns Competition on Saturday in the Masonic Hall, Bowhill.

Said club secretary Willie Miller: "Though entry numbers were small, with no singers presenting at all, the children who entered the poetry recitation competition performed very well, indeed, and all are to be congratulated for putting the amount of work into practising their recitation skills that they so obviously had".

Skye Hutt won the prize for poetry by children aged 6 and under reciting "Up in the morning early."

Elizabeth Fleming won the Quaich for children aged 7 to 9 with "Tam Glen", and Duncan Gilmour was runner-up with an excerpt from "To a Mouse".

Euan Hutt won the Quaich for children aged 10 and over with a heartfelt rendition of "A parcel o' rogues."