TWO rare bottles of whisky, one signed by the Duke of Edinburgh and one with an accompanying letter from Prince Andrew, will fetch up to £8,000 each at auction tomorrow.

TWO rare bottles of whisky, one signed by the Duke of Edinburgh and one with an accompanying letter from Prince Andrew, will fetch up to £8,000 each at auction tomorrow.

The 50-year-old bottles of single malt, the only ones of their kind, were bottled by Gordon & MacPhail to celebrate the 70th anniversary of RAF bases Kinloss and Lossiemouth this year.

Both bottles will be star attrac-tions in the world's biggest whisky auction at McTear's in Glasgow with the sale tipped to raise over £150,000 from 600 lots.

The RAF malts, distilled in 1939 and bottled in 1989, were gifted by Gordon & MacPhail to Lossie-mouth and Kinloss earlier this year and the bottles will now be up for auction in their original boxes with a booklet detailing the history of both RAF bases.

To mark the milestone the RAF bases have been running a charity fundraising drive with the sale of the malts set to boost this.

Squadron Leader Mick Letch of RAF Lossiemouth, said: "I am delighted that we were able to secure these two fantastic bottles to help us in our fundraising efforts."

Amongst the other lots at the auction are a 50-year-old Glenfiddich which could fetch between £10,000 and £15,000.