Pipers' tribute to the Perthshire heroes of the 'forgotten Dunkirk' during WW2

A young Stirling piper took part in last Friday’s commemorations of a WW2 battle in Normandy which resulted in the capture of thousands of Scottish soldiers.Wallace High School sixth-year pupil Murray Mcneish travelled to Morayshire to play the pipes for 99-year-old veteran Donald Smith at his home in Forres.Murray’s great grandfather Thomas Mcneish was in the Seaforth Highlanders with Donald and both were captured in St Valéry-en-Caux, known as the ‘forgotten Dunkirk’ in June 1940.The

Patrick Harvie yesterday made an impassioned plea for historical links to slavery to be erased from Scotland’s streets after calls to topple monuments and scrap street signs.Thousands of people have backed petitions to pull down the controversial Lord Melville monument in Edinburgh city centre and remove the names of those who benefited from slavery from Glasgow landmarks in recent days.And Greens co-leader Harvie backed the move, saying we can only “tackle Scotland’s deep-rooted racism” once

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