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Carnoustie to pay new tribute to Victoria Cross heroes
Two historic Angus recipients of the Victoria Cross will receive an additional honour, now that space for commemorative plaques has been found. (...)
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Year of the Light chief Harry Simpson turns attentions to Spitfire festival plans
Plans for a festival to mark the 70th anniversary of an Angus Spitfire have been boosted by the announcement of a steering group chairman. (...)
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Air raid shelter demolished for Dundee High School's Dalnacraig sports development
A piece of Dundee's wartime heritage has been lost through the redevelopment of a sports pitch. (...)
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Forgotten Highland Alistair Urquhart opens Unicorn series
A series of military-themed events aboard the Unicorn has opened with a talk by author Alistair Urquhart. (...)
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Alyth's history-filled Lands of Loyal Hotel goes on the market
A luxury establishment built in the 1830s by Battle of Waterloo veteran Sir William Ogilvie is on the market for £1.2 million. (...)
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War in Afghanistan prompts Olivia to fight for answers from Downing Street
Plenty of people have questioned government policy on Afghanistan — but not many of them are 12 years old. (...)
Kirkcaldy gives standing ovation to Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart
Kirkcaldy won't forget the Forgotten Highlander in a hurry after author Alistair Urquhart visited the town's Central Library. (...)
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Dundee University to help prevent Nile's fresh water disputes
Dundee University has been asked to help prevent water wars breaking out in Africa. (...)
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Fife's soldiers remembered by Kirkcaldy war memorial extension
Families looked on proudly as the names of Fife soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice joined those of fallen comrades. (...)
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Remembering Black Watch's 'darkest day'
The ranks of friends from Tayside and Fife who perished during The Black Watch's darkest day will be remembered in Dundee this weekend. (...)
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Victims of Norway attacks remembered at Montrose tribute to Bamse
Owners of St Bernard dogs from across the UK held a minute's silence for the victims of the Norway terror attacks when they gathered in Montrose on Sunday to pay their respects to a second world war canine hero. (...)
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'Hero' Fife sniper Christopher Reynolds pays for assaulting girlfriend
A Fife soldier awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in Afghanistan has been ordered to pay £500 compensation to the girlfriend he battered just a month before receiving the accolade. (...)
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St Valery veteran and Dundee expat John (Jack) Hardie
A former Dundee man whose experience as a prisoner of war led to him being a witness at a war crimes trial has died in Canada at the age of 92. (...)
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John Moffat, the Dunkeld man who braved hell to halt the Bismarck
It was a shot which changed the course of World War II's battle for naval supremacy and its significance is still being celebrated 70 years later. (...)
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Black Watch veterans remember comrades' sacrifice in Second World War
A dwindling band of Black Watch soldiers gathered in Perthshire to remember the sacrifice their regimental comrades made during the Second World War. (...)
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'We're not worried that the Last Post is almost sounding for us' — gathering of WW2's Black Watch veterans
The tiny handful of surviving World War Two Black Watch veterans will muster round the standard for possibly the final time in a poignant Perthshire ceremony to remember a generation of heroes. (...)
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Summer works to shore up Forfar's Balmashanner war memorial
A summer works programme is planned for Balmashanner war memorial in Forfar. (...)
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MoD says 45 Commando marines well prepared to deal with any backlash to Osama bin Laden killing
The Afghanistan operations of Arbroath's 45 Commando will not be affected by the death of Osama bin Laden, the Ministry of Defence has insisted. (...)
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Black Watch author Tom Renouf — the man with Himmler's watch
Most old soldiers have the odd memento they brought back home from war — some quirky reminder of a brush with death, of comradeship in the face of adversity, of the best of times in the midst of the worst of times. It could be a book, a photo, a letter. Tom Renouf has Heinrich Himmler's watch. (...)
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2014 target for Black Watch memorial at Ypres
The bravery of Black Watch soldiers in the first world war is to be celebrated in an ambitious project forged in the regiment's heartland but with its focus on a tranquil corner of rural Belgium. (...)
