He is recognised as a man of many talents; poetry, farming and womanising to name but a few. But tales of Rabbie Burns seldom speak of a fondness for housework.

Yet a disagreement about the authenticity of an apron belonging to The Bard has brought two Scots organisations to loggerheads.

Scotland's Masons and the Burns House Museum in Dumfriesshire are locked in a row over who owns the Freemason's apron that once belonged to the poet.   SOURCE ARTICLE