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The BBC reports that a bagpipe player sparked a security alert at the Olympics – after Chinese police mistook his musical instrument for “some kind of weapon”. Charity walker Andrew Aitken, from Galashiels, arrived in Beijing on the same day as the opening ceremony. He decided to warm-up his pipes near the stadium, not realising he was close to a major electricity station.

A police car pulled up and Mr Aitken said it was only thanks to a passing tourist guide that he avoided arrest. Mr Aitken said:

I had a silly soldier’s hat on and my kilt and a few locals gathered round and seemed to be enjoying me playing, but just as I finished a police car pulled up with four officers. They weren’t happy and it emerged that it was heightened security all over China because of the opening ceremony.

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