As It Happens World stone skimming championship in Scotland rocked by cheating scandal

At the World Stone Skimming Championships off Scotland's west coast, hundreds of contestants go the distance to be crowned champion.

But at this year's event, on the tiny car-free island of Easdale, some contestants went a stone's throw too far.

Organizers say a handful of overly zealous stone skimmers cheated by doctoring their stones.

That contravenes one of the rules of the competition that states the stones must be "naturally formed" on Easdale. Another rule states that the stones "cannot be wider than three inches at their widest point."

"They must all pass through our measuring device, which is called the 'ring of truth,'" Kyle Matthews, organizer and official "toss master" of the event, t

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