Residents of Dull village hope to link up with Boring US town

The village of Dull are hoping to link up with Boring Credit: PA

Residents of a small village called Dull are confident they will become a 'sister community' with the US town of Boring.

Dull, in Perthshire, and Boring forged an unlikely link when Elizabeth Leighton, who lives in Aberfeldy, near the Scottish village, was on a cycling holiday in the US.

She passed through Boring, Oregon, and immediately phoned her friend Emma Burtles, a resident of Dull, with an idea to link the two communities.

However differences in the towns mean they cannot be twinned, as Boring has a population of more than 10,000, to Dull's 84 residents.

Dull's main businesses are guest lodges and chalets, aimed at the tourism market, as well as Highland Safaris, which operates out of the village. Boring is said to be "quite an industrial place".

Officials in Boring, which is six hours behind the UK, are set to vote today on whether they can be officially linked.