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It remains one of the most daring heists in British criminal history carried out by four fresh-faced students from Glasgow University. It was a crime that struck at the heart of the British establishment and threatened to derail the future coronation of the present Queen. Those responsible faced charges of treason and their story was splashed across the front pages of the world s newspapers.
READ MORE: The theft of the Stone of Destiny had taken place in London. However the police investigation centred on Glasgow and led in turn to one of the city s biggest ever security operations. The drama first unfolded in the early hours of Christmas Day 1950.
By Hamish MacPherson
Back in the Day I have long considered it a national disgrace that we do not do more to promote Robert Burns as Scotland’s gift to the world REGULAR readers may recall that I asked for people to email me about local history and heritage projects, and already I have a backlog, though please keep sending them to the above address. The latest in this occasional series is a local project with national implications, for in this case it involves one of the homes of our National Bard, Robert Burns. I have long considered it a national disgrace that we do not do more to promote Robert Burns as Scotland’s gift to the world. Given his connections to places across the country, it mystifies me why there is no nationally co-ordinated trail that would take you from his birthplace of Alloway in Ayrshire to his mausoleum in Dumfries via the many locations attached to Burns.