THEY were just fans at a football match. Spectators at a game, a banal everyday occurrence. They were there to support their team, Rangers, but they never came home. Instead on Stairway 13 at Ibrox Park, they met with crushing death and injury. Even 50 years later the sheer unfairness of it makes you weep – no one should die for being a football spectator, no one should die in such a manner. Remember the 66. For the sake of our common humanity, remember the 66. I told last week of how the disaster unfolded, and now I will deal with the aftermath. It was the sight of the bodies laid out in lines on the turf of Ibrox Park that broke hearts all over Scotland and beyond. Only some grainy newspaper pictures survive to tell the tale, as there was no filming of what happened – a mercy, given what unfolded that cold, foggy evening in Glasgow.
Public vote for North Kessock bottle bank By Louise Glen Published: 19:30, 28 December 2020
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Councillor Gordon Adam hopes people respect the decision.
A Black Isle councillor has warned against a Trump-like shenanigans over the siting of a controversial bottle bank.
A long-running battle to have bottle banks on a picturesque pier â or not â took an unusual twist this week.
Highland councillors decided to put the siting of recycling bins in North Kessock out to a public vote â at a cost to the public purseâ in spite of a 50-signature strong petition from residents asking for them to remain where they are.