MONARCHS ANNOUNCE 2006 TEAM SPONSOR

NEWS Friday 17th March 2006, 10:00am

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Edinburgh Monarchs are delighted to announce that their team sponsors for the 2006 season will be Scotwaste, the award-winning recycling, site clearance and skip hire company from Bathgate in West Lothian.

Scotwaste are a subsidiary of Stewart Melrose (Bathgate) Limited, and first visited Speedway at Armadale as match sponsors last season.

They were impressed with what they saw, and Stewart Melrose explained his reasons for wanting to become more involved:

"I enjoyed my visit last season, and so did all the customers I brought along.

"The reason for wanting to become more involved is that it is such a family-oriented sport. You can take your wife and kids along. My guests at speedway appreciated that too.

"Recently I was a guest at a top Scottish Premier League match, and it was a great day with a lovely meal - but it was only me.

"It's a great chance for a family outing. If I go to football I spend half an hour explaining the offside rule. At Speedway, even if you don't understand all the rules you can just enjoy the action!

"Another factor which persuaded us to link with the Monarchs is that they are the most local sport to our business. We are a West Lothian Company, even though we do operate in Edinburgh too.

"We earn money in West Lothian and we like to spend it in West Lothian!"

So the Armadale-based team will now be known as the Edinburgh Scotwaste Monarchs, and this year's team are the YOUNGEST TEAM EVER to represent Monarchs in their 58-year history - average age 21.5 !!

SCOTWASTE MONARCHS 2006: THEO PIJPER (Holland), RUSTY HARRISON (Australia), HENRIK MOLLER (Denmark), MATT WETHERS (Australia), WILLIAM LAWSON (Scotland), DEREK SNEDDON (Scotland), SEAN STODDART (Scotland).

Scotwaste, Pond Industrial Park, Whitburn Road, Bathgate, West Lothian, EH48 2HR. Tel 01506 656560. Web: www.scotwaste.com