Memorial service held for rugby legend Doddie Weir

More than five hundred people packed into Melrose Parish Church

He was one of the best known names in Scottish rugby and raised millions of pounds for research into Motor Neurone Disease – and today the life of Doddie Weir was celebrated at a memorial service in the Borders.

The event in Melrose heard that finding a cure for the condition that killed him last month, aged just 52, would be a fitting legacy for him.

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