FELLOW ORGANISER: Arthur Grainger.
A MAJOR charity concert and fun day has been axed at the last minute &ndash after a remarkable series of errors by the event organiser The Bagrock in the Valley event was due to have been held in Castlebank Park, Lanark, on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s Children’s Fun Fair was to have been followed on Sunday by a concert headlined by the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and supported by a number of well-known Lanarkshire bands. But the Advertiser can reveal that, bizarrely, experienced event organiser Jim Masters appears to have been solely responsible for the cancellation following a number of major errors and omissions. It appears that, despite starting the organisation more than six months ago Mr Masters, a well-known Lanark man, never asked South Lanarkshire Council for permission to use the park. At one point even he told officials he did not know the council owned the park. It’s understood he also:
l Only paid about a quarter of the &pound1400 licensing fee.