Carlops

The two entertainers are from Carlops, a small village in the Pentland Hills, within the Scottish Borders. ''The last time we did a show in Carlops, everybody said 'why don't you take this show to New Zealand?' - it was that good,'' said Morss. ''They ...

“Hilarity has been the reaction from Carlops to Caddonfoot. My reason for choosing it was to get through our Church bubbly to 'the common people who heard Jesus gladly (Mark's Gospel)'”, he said. Significantly, it took Jack 86 years, a Leith Keelie, to ...

A Peebleshire man has become the first recorded person to play the bagpipes at the South Pole. Jak Kennedy, 29, from Carlops went on a personal expedition to Antarctica to fulfil a lifelong ambition. Jak Kennedy. Credit: Jak Kennedy. Jak taped hand ...

PEEBLESSHIRE Piper Jak Kennedy has become the first person to play the bagpipes at the South Pole. The 29-year-old made it into the history books during a gruelling 70 mile Antarctic trek, and called the experience 'a dream come true.' Polar-explorer ...

He might only have managed one tune before the bitter cold froze his bagpipes, but Carlops adventurer Jak Kennedy's dream had come true. The 29-year-old became the first person to play the bagpipes at the South Pole this month, buit on ly after he was ...

Jak, from Carlops, Scottish Borders, who has played the pipes for 20 years, said he went into autopilot when he started playing. He said: “I'd been thinking of going to the Antarctic for years and years now but only recently did I think it would be a ...