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It's been Ger-iffic!
29 Aug 20100 Comments
WOUNDED squaddie Gary Jamieson was in Blue Heaven this week - as he met his footie heroes at Ibrox.
Taliban bomb blast victim Gary, 30, from Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, visited the Glasgow club this week and chatted to boss Walter Smith and new signing Nikica Jelavic, 25, at a day organised by the champs.
Soldier's teenage killer detained
29 Aug 2010 0 Comments
A teenager who killed a Glasgow soldier just days before he was returning home to his family for Christmas has been detained for two and half years.
John Flannigan, 17, punched 19-year-old Andrew Gibson in the back of the head during a drunken nightclub attack in Darlington, County Durham.
It was "pay back" for an incident minutes earlier when the Scots Guardsman had punched the teenager, the court heard.
Helmand soldier’s dad is chaplain at Camp Bastion field hospital
With a bond stronger than a band of brothers, a father and son joined the thousands of Brits fighting the war in Afghanistan.
Born in Inverness, Lance Corporal Colin Adams, 25, has just completed a seven-month tour in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as part of the right flank with 1 Scots Guards.
While L/Cpl Adams operated out in the field, his father Bob, 51, worked as chaplain attached to the field hospital at Camp Bastion.
He died a hero doing the job he loved
23 Aug 20102 Comments
Family of Lance Sergeant Dale McCallum, who was killed in Afghanistan, reveal the man behind the tragic war statistic.
IT'S A Sunday evening that Lurline Watson will never forget. A moment she often feared would happen. Her beloved and only son, Dale McCallum, a Lance Sergeant in the First Battalion Scots Guard, had been killed - one month short of returning home from the war for good. He was just 31.
