School names arts centre after Fleming

ONE of Edinburgh's top schools is to name its performing arts centre after former pupil and actor Tom Fleming.

The unveiling of the new name of the centre was due to be carried out by actor John Cairney at The Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools today.

Principal David Gray said: "Tom Fleming, one of Scotland's leading broadcasters, actors and theatre directors, was one of Stewart's Melville's best known former pupils in the field of the arts. It is fitting that our state-of-the-art performing arts centre should be named after him."

Tom Fleming, who died in April this year, was born in Edinburgh in 1927 and attended Daniel Stewart's College from 1932 until 1944. He is remembered particularly as the voice of innumerable royal and state occasions and for providing 44 years of coverage of the Military Tattoo for the BBC.