Three members of Dumfries Wado-Kai Karate Club successfully passed their examination and reached the rank of Shodan, the black belt rank in Japanese martial arts.
The Dumfries club showed that age doesn’t matter after 14-year-old Kyle Gowan, 55-year-old Duncan Scobie and Ron Carrick, 68, attended a karate studio, Honbu Dojo in Dunfermline where they achieved the first senior rank.