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Labour MP who represented his native Dundee for 26 years and campaigned for local and Middle Eastern causes

Family of former Dundee West MP, Ernie Ross, share treasured images for the first time of the man who served Dundee and hosted world leaders.

The 'winter of discontent' - When workers could take no more

A grandmother with a taste for Guinness has celebrated reaching her 100th birthday. Mary ‘Paddy’ Tipping marked the day surrounded by family and friends at a garden party hosted by the Fitzwarren House care home. She enjoyed receiving presents, balloons, a card from the Queen and not one but two birthday cakes - one of them shaped like a pint of Guinness, which is something she credits with helping her live such a long and happy life. Mary said: “Working for so long kept me active and the daily Guinness never did me any harm.” She still enjoys her daily bottle of the black s...

08 May, 2021 01:02 NOEL Heading, husband, father, grandfather, shop steward, teacher and economist, was born in north Belfast in the 1930s at a time of outdoor relief protests and sectarian violence. He experienced and contributed to many parts of the city's political and cultural life that do not normally receive the attention they deserve. On leaving school he started an engineering apprenticeship and became active in the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, participating in a Belfast strike of apprentices in the late 1940s. This experience developed his values of anti-sect...