Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A sgian-dubh is a small, single-blade, Scottish ceremonial knife, usually tucked into kilt hose as part of ...

A Canadian bagpiper who generated huge public support after being fined for carrying a Sgian Dubh 18 months ago has had his case dropped and his knife returned. Jeff McCarthy from Montreal was ...

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In this video, we'll be making a Scottish Dagger "SGIAN DUBH". Wootz steel is a type of steel that is used to make daggers, ...

A pupil has been expelled after they brought a sgian dubh into a private school in Aberdeen. Police were called to Albyn School on Queen's Road in the city after the youngster was caught with the ...

A CANADIAN bagpiper of Scots descent has had his sgian-dubh confiscated and fined for carrying a knife. Kilted Jeff McCarthy was walking down the street in Montreal when police spotted the ceremonial ...

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The saga of a Montreal bagpiper who was fined $221 by Montreal police for carrying a Sgian Dubh, a small ceremonial Scottish dagger, has come to an end. In a Facebook post Friday, Jeff McCarthy, said ...

I NOTE that a piper from Quebec has been fined for wearing a sgian dubh (“A sgian-dubh hullabaloo”, The Herald, November 7). The drummers in a band I know too well avoid such problems by having a ...

Jeff McCarthy has played the bagpipes in traditional Scottish dress for more than 25 years. On Wednesday, McCarthy was taking a break from the McGill University convocation ceremonies at ...