Was a ghost to blame for terrorising Dundee streets in 1901?
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Were the apparent ghost robberies of Dundee in 1901 really all that they seemed?
It was November 1901, there was little sunlight hours, with only gas lamps flickering in the winter breeze giving any assistance to locals finding their way home.
You would be forgiven for already being a bit spooked by the dark surroundings so it was no surprise that when sightings of a ghostly robber in Dundee were reported many of the city’s women, and men, were afraid of what was going bump in the night. But was everything really as it seemed?
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Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham’s decision not to seek nomination as an SNP candidate for the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections has cast political minds back to her historic victory in a Westminster by-election 26 years ago.
On May 25, 1995, in a by-election called following the death of sitting Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, Ms Cunningham was first elected to represent the Perth and Kinross constituency where she turned a 2094 Conservative majority into a 7311 majority for the SNP.
Her win was significant as the area had been staunchly Tory for most years since the 1920s.