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Auchinleck's heart beat stopped one hundred years when news filtered out that over 70 men were trapped in Highhouse Pit - and a ferocious blaze was burning...
Published: Wednesday, 30th July, 2008 12:00
Shadow of the Noose - A Higher Power
Part two of Douglas Skelton's look at the Thomas Bone Jnr murder case of 1908
Published: Wednesday, 14th May, 2008 12:00
Thomas Bone Jnr felt compelled to murder his young wife in 1908. In the first of a two-part feature, Douglas Skelton examines the case.
Published: Wednesday, 14th May, 2008 12:00
Almost 70 years ago, another chapter in the chronicle of mining tragedies was written in New Cumnock at BankNo 6 Pit.
Published: Friday, 21st September, 2007 15:00
THURSDAY September 7 was the anniversary of the tragedy the world called the Knockshinnoch Disaster. The Late BILL AITKEN, then Chronicle Chief Reporter, was on the scene at Knockshinnoch a few short hours after that fatal inrush of peat engulfed the pit bottom in 1950. Years later, he wrote an emotional account of the days and nights that still haunt New Cumnock.
Published: Thursday, 13th September, 2007 09:13
IN Keir Hardie country, it is said, placing a red rosette on a donkey would be enough to ensure election.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd May, 2007 14:59
FIVE men were killed and 20 were injured as they headed home from their shift at New Cumnock’s Bank No 6 mine on April 13, 1938.
Published: Thursday, 19th April, 2007 09:16
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