Alasdair Steven
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Scots campaigner and bar owner behind the UK Aids Memorial Quilt dies (opens the original)
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Ally Van Tillo, also known as Alastair John Hume, who has died aged 67 was a campaigning gay activist who was the champion and originator for the UK Aids Memorial Quilt which is thought to be the world’s largest community art project. It consists of quilted panels made by friends, partners, family members or colleagues of those who died of Aids. The quilt relieved much of the anxiety, guilt and shame which pervaded the gay community throughout those years. Tillo’s outstanding idea helped to calm
Star in Scotland who made headlines with scandalous wardrobe malfunction dies (opens the original)
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Jill Gomez, who has died aged 83, was a soprano of much style who had lustrous ‘creamy’ voice. She often came to Scotland to sing with Scottish Opera, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and at the Edinburgh Festival. But she gained unexpected fame when she was, it is thought, the first woman to appear topless on the stage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1970 Gomez was in Glasgow singing with Scottish Opera in Hans Werner Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers when she was summoned to the
Springburn boy who rose to become chaplain to the Queen in Scotland dies (opens the original)
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The Rev Charles Robertson, who has died aged 85, was a charismatic and steadfast figure in the Church of Scotland who held two incumbencies in notable churches. In both parishes, Kiltearn in Rosshire and the Canongate at the foot of the Royal Mile, Robertson was an inspiring leader and developed the kirk as a central part of the community. Charles Robertson (affectionately known as Charlie) was born the youngest of five in Springburn, Glasgow. Both his parents died in his youth and he was a surr
Tributes to chatelaine of one of Scotlandâs most beautiful houses (opens the original)
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The Dowager Duchess of Rosebery, who has died aged 94, inhabited and did much to enhance and preserve one of Scotlandâs most beautiful houses. For 70 years she arranged the artefacts of Dalmeny House, which proudly overlooks the Firth of Forth, with a very personal grace and style. In Dalmeny there are pictures by Gainsborough, Raeburn and Stubbs; rare French furniture and tapestries; valuable memorabilia of Robert Burns and an extensive library. Much of the precious items came as a result of
Tributes to Scottish Tory known as Lord Wallpaper (for papering over the problems) (opens the original)
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Lord Sanderson of Bowden, who has died aged 93, was unwittingly at the centre of the Brighton bombing that attempted to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet at the 1984 Tory party conference. As chairman of the party’s national union executive committee, he was responsible for the running of the conference. After the mayhem of the bombing of the Grand Hotel, Sanderson had to decide, on the advice of police and security, if next day’s speech by Mrs Thatcher should go ahead. He was well a
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