LANTRA Scotland held their Awards for Land-based & Aquaculture Skills (ALBAS) in the Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro Hotel at the beginning of March

Brian Sangster (right), BAGMA Immediate Past President presents the BAGMA Award to this year’s Land-based Engineering Learner of the Year, Greig Lambie

LANTRA are the Skills Council for the land-based, aquaculture and environmental conservation industries in Scotland.

Land-based Engineering Learner of the Year this year went to Greig Lambie, an apprentice with Hamilton Ross Group in Lanark, who completed his Modern Apprenticeship at SRUC, Oatridge Campus.

Runner up went to Gavin Elrick who also attended SRUC, Oatridge Campus and served his apprenticeship with Fairways GM Ltd in Aberdeen

MC and host for the evening was the well-known Perthshire farmer and stand-up comedian, Jim Smith, renowned for his broad Perthshire accent and his jokes with a strong agricultural slant.