Fife farmer Lyle Laird has died, aged 80, after an illness of several months.
He came to Lochhead Farm on the Wemyss estate as a one-year-old, when his parents moved there with their six sons from a farm at Kilmacolm.
Mr Laird farmed latterly with two of his sons, Donald and Billy, and was never happier than when in the show ring.
He had an active life outwith the farm, especially with NFU Scotland and was chairman of Fife and Kinross apprenticeship committee, a member of the Elmwood College advisory committee, a careers service consultant and a member of Coaltown of Wemyss school board.
An elder of Dysart Church, he also became involved with healthcare.
Mr Laird was treasurer of the Leven branch of St Columba’s Hospice and on the board of Abbeyfield home in Kirkcaldy, where he was a patient at the time of his death.
Mr Laird was predeceased by his wife Jean in 1977 and married Margaret, who survives him.
