Killing Times
Troops ambushed in Covenanter rescue attempt 
June 20, 1688
Covenanter activists today ambushed a company of soldiers in a bid to free one of their ministers.
Nine Covenanters dead, five arrested after bloody encounter on rainswept land near Muirkirk
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.
Soldiers hunt down known Covenanters
Two innocent farmers are shot dead when caught reading their Bible
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Almost 70 years ago, another chapter in the chronicle of mining tragedies was written in New Cumnock at BankNo 6 Pit.
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.
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