Pupils recruited to cover Orkney pier with dozens of Union flags

Children in Orkney helped to put up 70 Union flags along Kirkwall Pier, one for each year of the Queen's reign

MORE than 180 children marched through the streets of Kirkwall armed with Union flags to greet a cruise liner sailing round the UK to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Primary pupils from Glaitness School were kitted out with Union flag bowler hats, Union flag party horns and Union flag lunch boxes as they walked alongside the Kirkwall City Pipe Band to greet day-trippers from Ambassador’s Ambience ship as they came ashore.