Uncle Jock News Today

SCOTLAND’S most famous cartoon son wears dungarees. Oh yes, ye ken right away of whom we speak. I could have given you more clues such as spiky…

Heather Cardon, née McGruther, knew Sando as Aunty Peggy when she was young. Her mother Dede was good friends with Sando from when they were both in the New Zealand Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). But Cardon’s mother never told her Sando and McGruther had been close. ‘’Probably because it was sad. I imagined they consoled each other over things like that and did not necessarily speak to the kiddies about it. ‘’It was my mum who introduced her to Uncle Jock. She felt a...