The Big Yin's Tartan Day parade kilt goes on display

Sir Billy Connolly has loaned a kilt he wore to the Tartan Day parade in New York to the V&A in Dundee.

The museum is displaying the kilt as part of its People's Tartan collection.

It was worn by the much-loved Scottish comedian when he led the annual parade through Manhattan, accompanied by his family, in 2019.

The 80-year-old, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's 10 years ago, said that when he was a boy, people who wore kilts were thought of as "weird".

"But when the Boy Scouts started to wear kilts, the idea of kilt wearing took a leap forward as far as we were concerned."

The kilt is described as The Big Yin's Grand Marshal kilt and it will be displayed at the museum until 14 January.