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IT was 70 years ago today that one of the great mysteries of the 1950s was resolved, rather than solved, when the missing Stone of Destiny was recovered from the grounds of Arbroath Abbey. On Christmas Day, 1950, four young Scottish nationalists – Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Alan Stuart and Kay Matheson – pulled off a stunning coup that briefly electrified the world. I have called them the Stone Raiders, because they secreted themselves inside Westminster Abbey and removed the Stone in a plan that had first been thought of by stonemason and SNP councillor Bertie Gray, who had made a r...

The Stone of Destiny at Arbroath Abbey in 1951, but did the authorities get the right stone? I READ Gerry Hassan’s article on the Stone of Destiny (Independence – Destiny’s Child) in the Sunday National of December 20 with great interest. I was totally unaware of the reclamation. At that time I was 16 and in a college run by the Marist Brothers in Dumfriesshire. We had no contact with the outside world – I do not think I had even heard of the SNP. In my early days in the SNP I met Jimmy Halliday, who had been the immediate past chairman of the party. Ian Hamilton asked Jimmy to c...