When people think of a traditional Highland Games it is usually the heavy events such as throwing the hammer and tossing the caber that come to mind - and it is burly men in kilts who are hurling ...

A teenager from the Highlands has set a new world record for tossing the caber. Andrew Murphie, 18, from Grantown-on-Spey, managed to toss 26 cabers in three minutes - smashing the previous record ...

To achieve his place in history Andrew had to toss more than 16 full-sized cabers - that’s 16ft 6in tall, weighing in a 88lbs ...

The most emblematic of the heavy events is known as ‘tossing the caber’ – in this event a strong man throws a tree trunk (or caber), which is around 5.5 meters in length and weighs 55kg ...