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Troops ambushed in Covenanter rescue attempt
Bloody gunfight in narrow pass outside Cumnock leaves dead and dying in its wake
Published: Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008 12:00
FIVE men were hanged today on Mauchline Loan.
Published: Thursday, 10th April, 2008 12:00
Wanted preacher had 1000 mark reward on his head
Published: Thursday, 10th April, 2008 12:00
Nine Covenanters dead, five arrested after bloody encounter on rainswept land near Muirkirk
Published: Wednesday, 12th March, 2008 12:00
Two Covenanters face Cumnock Firing Squad
TWO men have been shot in Cumnock for attending a proscribed religious meeting while news emerges of further killing in the hills.
Published: Wednesday, 12th March, 2008 12:00
Soldiers hunt down known Covenanters
Two innocent farmers are shot dead when caught reading their Bible
Published: Wednesday, 12th March, 2008 12:00
Battle rages at Drumclog: Forces clash on marshy land
Around 40 men dead - King’s man Graham escapes with his life
Published: Wednesday, 12th March, 2008 12:00
MOORLAND ARREST: MAN GUNNED DOWN
Army Commander feels 'justified’ in executing elderly man
Published: Wednesday, 12th March, 2008 12:00
IT’S amazing to think that the introduction of a simple religious book could have led to one of the bloodiest periods of Scottish history. Yet that’s exactly what happened in 1637 when King Charles I tried to overturn years of Scottish Presbyterianism by decreeing that the Book of Common Prayer should be used in Kirk services.
Published: Thursday, 7th February, 2008 12:30
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
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