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Troops ambushed in Covenanter rescue attempt (Comment on this)

June 20, 1688

Covenanter activists today ambushed a company of soldiers in a bid to free one of their ministers.

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Mauchline five hanged

FIVE men were hanged today on Mauchline Loan.

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Peden the Prophet has died

Wanted preacher had 1000 mark reward on his head

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Battle at Aird's Moss (Comment on this)

Nine Covenanters dead, five arrested after bloody encounter on rainswept land near Muirkirk

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Two Covenanters face Cumnock Firing Squad (Comment on this)

TWO men have been shot in Cumnock for attending a proscribed religious meeting while news emerges of further killing in the hills.

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Soldiers hunt down known Covenanters (Comment on this)

Two innocent farmers are shot dead when caught reading their Bible

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TRAGIC WWII PILOT LAID TO REST

A LUGAR World War II pilot has finally been laid to rest 64 year after his Avro Lancaster came down in the Netherlands.

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Fire Down Below

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...

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Shadow of the Noose - A Higher Power

Part two of Douglas Skelton's look at the Thomas Bone Jnr murder case of 1908

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Shadow of the Noose

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.

Bank Pit tragedy

Almost 70 years ago, another chapter in the chronicle of mining tragedies was written in New Cumnock at BankNo 6 Pit.

Knockshinnoch Disaster

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.

THEY’VE HAD YOUR VOTE

IN Keir Hardie country, it is said, placing a red rosette on a donkey would be enough to ensure election.

DISASTER ON APRIL 13, 1938

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.

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