Zara Phillips to visit

The Queen's granddaughter, Zara Phillips, is to visit Huntly on Thursday to spend a day working at the Rivermill Bakery.

Although she won't be baking bread, putting pink icing on sticky buns or making cookies, Ms Phillips will earn $70,000 for her efforts.

The money is going to the charity Catwalk Trust, of which Ms Phillips is the international patron. The trust supports spinal cord research.

The day will begin with a photo shoot for media and then Ms Phillips will join Rivermill owner Gerald Shand, friends and staff and Catwalk founder Catriona Williams for morning tea.

She will be shown over Rivermill's bakery operation. The bakery is one of the town's largest employers with 120 workers, and it sells more than half a million loaves of bread and 10 tonnes of cookies a week.