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Drama and mystery of the Stone of ­Destiny still resonates 70 years on


IT was 70 years ago today that one of the great mysteries of the 1950s was resolved, rather than solved, when the missing Stone of Destiny was recovered from the grounds of Arbroath Abbey.
On Christmas Day, 1950, four young Scottish nationalists – Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Alan Stuart and Kay Matheson – pulled off a stunning coup that briefly electrified the world. I have called them the Stone Raiders, because they secreted themselves inside Westminster Abbey and removed the Stone in a plan that had first been thought of by stonemason and SNP councillor Bertie Gray, who had made a replica of the Stone as early as 1929. ....

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