Michael Alexander
Lead News Feature Writer at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Lead News Feature Writer (& Obits), The Courier, Dundee; Former Fife Chief Reporter & Courier News Editor. Tel 07802 690230 e: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander
A former manager of Taypark House in Dundee is being remembered by her family as a “feisty” woman with a sharp sense of humour who “knew her mind” and “didn’t suffer fools”. Lillian Kelly, who’s died a few days before her 92nd birthday, started as a care assistant at the former care home on Perth Road, and worked her way up to become officer in charge. Describing his mum as a “character” who will be greatly missed, son Alan told The Courier: “Taypark wasn’t just mum’s job, it was her vocation.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander
St Andrews Harbour Trust trustee Douglas Mundie is no stranger to innovative solutions. The 72-year-old St Andrews University graduate can claim a quirky but globally recognisable success: he led the team that developed the world’s first squeezy tomato ketchup bottle, securing Heinz’s inaugural order for 18 million of them in 1985.
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thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander
The family of Bill Wylie MBE, who was a former commanding officer of Dundee Sea Cadets for decades, have paid tribute to him a year after his death. A service was recently held to mark the first anniversary of his passing aged 74. It came as his mother Eliza died aged 103 just a few weeks ago on April 23. Lieutenant Commander (SCC) W G Wylie MBE RNR was born in Perth on November 5 1949. He attended Northern District, then Goodlyburn schools.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander
Sandy Mathieson, the former general manager of Aberdeen and Northern Marts who lived in Pitlochry for almost 40 years after retirement, has died aged 98. A regular guest auctioneer at the bull sales in Perth, his whole working life was spent in and around the auction marts of North East Scotland. He was well known in farming circles and did a lot of fundraising and community work while living in Aberdeen and Pitlochry.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Michael Alexander
Dusk is slipping in quietly as I sit at the edge of a still pond on the Argaty estate, beside rewilding advocate and author Tom Bowser. The spring air is still warm. Birdsong drifts peacefully from the trees, growing softer as the light fades. Before us lies a fortress of sticks and mud – an immense dam built by beavers, holding back a total of 2.5 million litres of water.
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