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This week's Legend

Edith and Evelyn

by Jackie Anderson
TWIN SISTERS Edith Ritchie and Evelyn Middleton celebrated their 101st birthday this week beating the record held by any other British pair of twins to date. This remarkable twosome from Ellon in Aberdeenshire have a total of 82 descendants ...

Article from Friday 19, November, 2010
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Archie Scott

by Jackie Anderson
Seventy-five years ago Archie passed his driving test at the wheel of his beloved Humber. Now aged 92 and concerned that the authorities would think he was to old to drive he has sat the advanced driving test and passed ...

Article from Tuesday 9, November, 2010
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Nigel Abbot – hero driver

by Jackie Anderson
Nigel Abbott, a lorry driver from Preston, Lancashire, has been given an award for bravery by Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Stephen House. Nigel was first on the scene when a coach full of school children crashed near Biggar earlier ...

Article from Monday 1, November, 2010
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Jings! It's the Scottish Government!!

by Jackie Anderson
At long last the Scottish Government has addressed a long-standing issue in that it has ordered a “presumption against Taxi Journeys” to its staff who have been using taxis without considering other modes of transport. Having spent £300,000 last ...

Article from Tuesday 19, October, 2010
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The pupils of Moncrieffe Primary School, Perth

by Jackie Anderson
Pupils of Moncrieffe Primary School, Perth, have unearthed a find of rare truffles when tending the potatoes, onions and beans in the school’s allotment. The truffles were passed to local chef Graeme Pallister who could not believe the find ...

Article from Tuesday 5, October, 2010
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Andrew Blain Baird

by Jackie Anderson
BUTE IS AT LAST paying tribute to the largely forgotten feat of blacksmith Andrew Blain Baird who died aged 91 in 1951. He was the first Scot to make a power flight in an aircraft built in Scotland – made ...

Article from Wednesday 22, September, 2010
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Saad Attieh

by Jackie Anderson
Saad Attieh, who lost both his eyes at the age of two, has passed his advanced higher music exam with a grade A despite sitting it two years earlier than other students. This musical prodigy, a 15-year-old pupil of ...

Article from Thursday 9, September, 2010
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Scottish Water's donation to the Pakistani flood

by Jackie Anderson
Scottish Water has donated amongst other things 4,000 collapsible water containers, 10,000 sterilisation tablets and 170 containers of sanitising hand gel, to the relief aid for the dreadful disaster in Pakistan. Over 1,500 people have been killed in the ...

Article from Thursday 19, August, 2010
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The Bard

by Jackie Anderson
A document discovered by The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) has solved a mystery that has puzzled scholars worldwide – how did he receive what was to be his final salary payment when he was gravely ill? A ...

Article from Thursday 5, August, 2010
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Alistair Urquhart

by Jackie Anderson
The memoir of this 91-year-old former Scottish prisoner of war has become a surprise hit on one of the world’s biggest on-line bookstores. The book tells the story of Alistair Urquhart’s terrible ordeal under the Japanese during the Second World ...

Article from Monday 26, July, 2010
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