Photo gallery: RAF Leuchars bids farewell in St Andrews

The crowds cheered and the music played on but there was no disguising the sadness as the century-long relationship between north Fife and the RAF came to an end on Saturday. Thousands of people lined the streets of St Andrews to say farewell to the servicemen and women of RAF Leuchars as they exercised their right to the freedom of the town for the last time before the base is handed over to the army next year.

Thousands of people lined the streets of St Andrews to say farewell to the servicemen and women of RAF Leuchars as they exercised their right to the freedom of the town for the last time before the base is handed over to the army next year.