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Graham Spiers is a Scottish sports journalist who writes for the Scottish edition of The Times newspaper. He has won Scotland's Sports Journalist of the Year award four times. [1] Spiers grew up in Edinburgh, Fife and Glasgow, [2] and attended the University of St Andrews. [3] He worked as chief sportswriter at The Herald from 2001 to 2007. He ...
Oct 21, 2012 · Published 21st Oct 2012, 01:00 GMT. EVERY morning at 7am, whether there is early summer sunshine or spitting winter rain, Aileen Allan crawls from her warm Ayrshire bed and pulls on scruffy clothes...
Nov 29, 2020 · Died: November 17 2020 in Haddington, aged, 93. Graham Speirs was appointed the first chief official of the ‘umbrella’ body set up to represent the interests of the new regional, district and...
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- Ronald’s Parents
- Ronald’s Early Childhood
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Ronald Charles Speirs was born on 20th April, 1920 in the Scottish city of Edinburgh.1 He was the youngest of five children for parents Robert Craig Speirs, Jr and Martha Agnes (McNeil) Speirs, 2but his stay in Scotland was to be short.
Robert Speirs, Ronald’s father, was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1882.3 His engineering career began as a young man when he became an apprentice engineer fitter in the Glasgow area.4 Around this time, Robert met Martha McNeil. They were married in 1908 5and lived in Dalmuir, just outside Glasgow. By this time, Robert was a journeyman engineer. Rob...
Ronald spent his child and early adulthood in Boston, though records show during the summer break, when Ronald was between 8th and 9th grades, he and his parents sailed back back to the UK on the MV Georgic, part of the Cunard White Star line, from Boston.12 The journey took them through New York and Galway in Ireland before docking in Liverpool on...
Ronald Speirs’ first marriage took place on 20th May 1944 to an English girl he met whilst stationed in Aldbourne, Wilshire, England.19 Speirs recalled, “before the invasion, I was sent down to Winchester to set up a camp for an infantry division coming up from Africa. There I met my English wife who was a member of the ATS, the British women’s ser...
Sep 21, 2006 · There are photographs of Struth today which only partly hint at his personality: a formidable, strongjawed, somewhat grave and solemn-looking man, whose life was devoted to Rangers.
- The Herald Staff
Nov 28, 2020 · Having decided around 1990 to fully retire, he started searching for a property abroad, eventually buying a flat in the resort of Puerto Pollensa in Majorca. He and his wife, Myra, spent many happy holidays there over a period of more than 20 years.
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Graham Spiers: Family of Annan hero had to flee Iraq during Saddam Hussein's reign. EVERY day, says Rabin Omar, he feels grateful for what he has: family, friends, a great life in Scotland.
