SOME 1,300 people crammed into Battersea Evolution in London on Monday to honour Doddie Weir, the former Scotland and Lions lock, who has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.
The dinner was organised by Kenny Logan and the Scottish wing did his ex-team-mate proud, raising money for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation for research into MND.
The money poured in with a number of auction prizes breaking the £30,000 mark. The biggest earner was for a pheasant and partridge shoot, plus dinner, with Mike and Zara Tindall at Gatcombe Park. It went for the tidy sum of £50,000.

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