Queen's Baton Relay route revealed

The list of villages, towns and cities in Scotland that will welcome the Queen's Baton Relay has been revealed. The Baton has spent months travelling to 68 Commonwealth nations and territories since its official launch by the Queen at Buckingham Palace last October.

It will arrive in England and in May and travel up the east coast, entering Scotland in June. On Saturday June 14th the route will begin in Edinburgh. On the 18th June it will arrive in the Scottish Borders.

It will travel through Duns, Greenlaw, Earlston, Melrose, Tweedbank, Selkirk, Kelso, Jedburgh and Hawick. The next day it will be in Dumfries and Galloway. Starting in Langholm, it will also visit Gretna, Eastriggs, Dumfries, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Newton Stewart and Stranraer.