It is the end of an era for the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, which is making its last performance under that name at Celtic Connections.
The new band will continue to maintain close links with the police and local community and will wear the old band's Loch Lomond tartan.
Barlow's Sing, which was co-written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, features 210 musicians including the African Children's Choir, Aboriginal guitarist Gurrumul, Slum Drummers from Kenya's Kibera slum and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Band, as well as the Military Wives choir - and Prince Harry on tambourine.
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The rise in the police precept means that Band D council tax payers will be charged an extra 17 pence per week.
As it was being pulled by a tugboat, the duck was serenaded for 30 minutes by the city's official police band and greeted by girls from a dance school pirouetting in orange tutus and yellow feather headdresses.
In Portland, Maine, kids and even pets displayed the Stars and Stripes as veterans, youth groups law enforcement officials and civic organizations paraded to Monument Square to the tunes of a marching band, sirens from a police car and the rumble of motorcycles.
In her early career, she and her band were involved in a car crash and the police rescued only the white victims in the other car and left her and her band-mates on the road, where three of them died.
Police chief Marcelo Arigony said the band had chosen not to buy more expensive indoor flares.
The band won the 1975 World Pipe Band Championship and a further six times under their former identity as the Edinburgh Police.
Police told Band News that 90% of the victims were found in that part of the club.
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Police commissioner Alan Charles said the tax rate in the A band will increase by just under 2%.
"As I understand it, RNU and the band are named as organisers and therefore this was something we pushed the police very strongly that they would need to investigate, " he said.
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During their performance, the band Gurizada Fandangueira used pyrotechnics that they knew were for outdoor use only, police have said.
The duo of Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence Rudd started as members of a Police and Queen cover band, and those influences rear their head here.
Central Scotland Police announced in October that, because of the single force, it had disbanded its pipe and drum band and reformed it as a civilian one, the Bannockburn and District Pipe Band.
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