A superfast net highway

The festival coincided with the Angus town becoming the highway to highspeed connectivity as Digital Scotland revealed more than 600 homes and businesses can now access fast fibre broadband services.

The Kirriemuir homes and businesses are among more than 10,000 across Angus now able to access fibre broadband through the £428 million Digital Scotland project.

Other local areas to benefit from the Scottish Government-led rollout include Auchterhouse, Kellas, Liff, Muirhead, Friockheim and parts of Forfar and Brechin. Angus Council’s economic development officer Kirsty Macari said: “Superfast broadband will help support our goal to market Angus as a great place for businesses to grow, innovate and work in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

“This news, coupled with our exploration of radio broadband installations across the county for rural schools to improve children’s access to digital learning, demonstrates the exciting opportunities broadband offers to the prosperity of communities for the future.”

Pictures: Gareth Jennings. Fiona Dakers, John Crawford, Mary Renshaw and Rachel Jackson helped to unveil the new Bon Scott information board, while a fan, right, pays his own tribute.