Raith Rovers chairman Turnbull Hutton to step down

Raith Rovers chairman Turnbull Hutton has announced his intention to step down from his role.

The sometimes outspoken Stark’s Park chief feels now is the time to vacate the post after the club’s accounts showed a near-20% increase in profit for the year ending June 2014 of £97,499 largely helped by winning the Ramsdens Cup and a good Scottish Cup run.

Hutton is expected to remain as chairman until around Christmas, although a club statement confirmed that appointments of new directors will be made over the next few weeks with a view to having a new board in place by the end of the year.

“The board would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Turnbull for all his efforts, experience, wit and devil’s advocacy and can state, without doubt, that the club remains in existence largely due to his leadership through some difficult and challenging times over the last decade,” the club statement added.