Popular festive tractor run returns

Around 100 tractors, trucks and lorries are expected to join in a Christmas Eve extravaganza in Huntly with folk from across Moray and the north-east invited to enjoy the sights.

The Ingram family who operate the A and D Ingram contracting business at Corse, near Huntly are making finals plans for a re-run of the very successful decorated tractor tour which last year raised over £4000 for Diabetes Research.

This year the chosen charity is Alzheimer's Scotland after Mr Ingram's maternal grandfather died from the condition.

The tractor run will leave from Huntly Mart at 6.30pm but tractors can arrive from 4.30pm for registration and will be judged at 6pm for the best decorated tractor and the driver.

From Huntly Mart the parade will enter the town via the Tesco junction and proceed along Deveron Road and Deveron Street to The Square. From The Square it will travel along Gordon Street, onto Bleachfield Street, Gladstone Road, Bogie Street and via the Battlehill onto the A96.

It will take the A97 as far as the junction at Cruichie to travel up through Drumblade, crossing the A96 at Slioch Crossroads to head to Gartly then back onto the A97 to return to the start point.

A team of around a dozen people will have collection buckets and there is also a Just Giving page for the event.

James Ingram said: "We hope folk will turn out again as they did last year and there's still time for folk to get their tractors decorated if they want to join it. We have changed the route a wee bit in the town to avoid the narrow bit on Bogie Street which caused a bit of a delay last year. We have had donations of sweeties from local businesses too so will be handing these out."

There's an entry fee of £10 per vehicle and last year entries came from across Buchan and into Moray.

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