Saint Andrew Society of Western Australia

Scots love their Burns Suppers and many can’t let a year go past without getting their fill of this traditional Scottish event. And that love has certainly been passed on to the non-Scots among the members and friends of the Society. That is why our Burns Supper is one of the finest events on our …

The December issue of the Society’s newsletter The Saltire has just been published. If you would like to have a look at it go into “The Saltire” in the “Pages” menu. You won’t be sorry you did!

Scots food group Baxters has swallowed the £30 million Fray Bentos canned meat business in a move that will bring a major investment and jobs boost to the Moray area of northern Scotland. Production of the famous tinned pies will shift from Long Sutton in Lincolnshire to Baxters’ factory at Fochabers over the course of …

A castle on the Isles of Lewis is to be restored to its former glory and turned into a museum. Lews Castle, on the edge of Stornoway, has been on the buildings at risk register since 2000 and its development has been stalled because of a lack of funding. Now the council which owns the …

A former Society Honorary Piper, Alisdair McLaren, has become the first West Australian to feature in the winning band at the World Pipe Band Championships. Alisdair plays for the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, which topped off an amazing year by winning the Grade 1 section of the 2011 World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow …

Veteran amateur golfer Rob Tyson waited 35 years for his first hole-in-one . . . then bagged another just three holes later. The 67-year-old defied odds of 67 million to one to notch up two aces at his local course Hardhillock, in Elgin, Moray. Dad-of-two Rob was playing in the local leg of a nationwide …