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| Canoeists escape freezing waters unhurt
Wednesday 16.12.09
A TRIO of thrill-seekers miraculously escaped unscathed when a canoe they were in capsized during a trip down the icy River Tay.
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Kindly pensioner dies in flat fire tragedy
Wednesday 16.12.09
A 68-YEAR-OLD Dundee woman has died following a house fire in the early hours of yesterday.
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| Arbroath Fire Trial Jury Set to Retire
Monday 7.12.09
JURORS WERE told by a judge at the High Court in Livingston yesterday that they had to decide whether the Crown had proved Stewart Blackburn murdered his girlfriend Jessica McCagh by setting her on fire at his home in Arbroath in the early hours of April 25.
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Teenager is Found Guilty of ‘Evil and Barbaric Murder’
Monday 7.12.09
ARBROATH MAN Stewart Blackburn was found unanimously guilty by a jury at the High Court in Livingston yesterday of the “evil and barbaric murder” of his 17-year-old girlfriend.
Jurors were out for an hour and 45 minutes before returning unanimous guilty verdicts on all the remaining charges faced by Stewart Blackburn (18).
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| Mobile Unit a ‘Wonderful Facility’
Monday 7.12.09
A £100,000 MOBILE unit allowing youth workers to operate from the heart of areas blighted by substance abuse will be a “wonderful facility” for Dundee, it was claimed last night.
Inspector Bryan Knight spoke after funding for the “mobile substance misuse diversionary facility” had been earmarked by the Dundee Partnership management committee.
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Arbroath Pupils Win Accolade
Monday 7.12.09
PUPILS AT Timmergreens Primary School in Arbroath know how to keep their heads in a crisis.
They were among several Angus school teams who took part in this year’s Safe Angus event at the Jock Neish Centre in Tannadice in May and October.
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| Accused Claimed Petrol Igniting Was an Accident
Monday 7.12.09
STANDING IN front of a sheriff, two weeks after the fire which killed his girlfriend, the Arbroath man accused of her murder said it was an “accident.”
Judicially examined before Sheriff Kevin Veal at Forfar on the morning of May 6, the charge of murdering Jessica McCagh was put to Stewart Blackburn and he replied, “Denied.”
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Jessica Possibly prevented From Escaping
Monday 7.12.09
AN ARBROATH teenager who suffered fatal injuries was possibly prevented from escaping a blazing bedroom, a forensic fire investigator told a murder trial at the High Court in Livingston yesterday.
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| Horror as man ablaze on train
Monday 16.11.09
A 23-YEAR-OLD man will appear at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court today in connection with an incident in which a football fan ran through a commuter train with his fancy dress outfit ablaze.
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Crowds vote displays a spectacular success
Monday 16.11.09
SPECTACULAR FIREWORKS displays in Dundee last night ensured that the city’s Guy Fawkes celebrations went off with a bang.
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