NATION PIPES UP FOR OUR HEROES

Scots puffed up with pride as musicians play for key workers

- NICHOLAS KEYDEN

SCOTLAND led the UK last night in a bagpipe salute to our frontline coronavirus heroes.

Pipers across the country stood in their doorways and driveways for a rousing chorus of Scotland the Brave.

In Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, Darach Urquhart, 38, pictured on our front page, stepped on to the roadside to belt out the tune.

Just a few miles across the city he was joined by Finlay MacDonald and his two boys piping on their doorstep in Clarkston.

Tens of thousands of others across towns and cities also took to their pipes at 8pm during the second applause for NHS workers keeping the country safe.

But this week it was expanded to include all frontline workers such as police, supermarket workers, lorry drivers and cleaners, who are doing their bit and putting their health at risk in the war against Covid-19.