Former Elmwood College lecturer and schoolteacher Jim Laing has died at home in Austria. He was 81.
He taught for many years at the Cupar college and prior to this in primary and high schools in Fife.
During the late 1960s he formed a folk band known as The Fife Reivers with his first wife and family which went on to record on the Columbia label.
The group, appeared regularly on Scottish and Grampian television and toured the length and breadth of Britain.
In the late 1980s he took early retirement from Elmwood and formed SCOTMAC, (Scottish Training and Motor-cycle Association), with his second wife Sandra.
From business premises on the Cupar trading estate, motorcyclists of all abilities were trained as they progressed to a full or advanced licence.
In 1998, Jim and Sandra sold up completely and began touring Europe and Morocco in their motorhome Matilda.
Five years later, due to the tragic death of daughter Bridget in Peru in 2003, they settled in Salzburg, Austria, to help her husband and three young children.
Jim continued to sing and write music, performing as a duo with Sandra, in Portugal, France and Austria and also acting with the English Drama Group in Salzburg.
After a long battle with cancer, courageously fought, he died at home in Salzburg, surrounded by his family.
He leaves wife Sandra, sons Russell, Kevin and Julian, son-in-law Rupert, daughter-in-law Pauline and grandchildren Caitlin, Yannik, Fabio, Olivia and Valentina.