Scottish friendship
It’s the locals as well as the visitors who are being shown true Scottish friendship at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.
When Bill McNeill, a Scots bronze medallist in the small bore rifle shooting contest, faced the prospect of not being able to collect his medal at the awards ceremony through
having to attend his grandfather’s funeral in far-off Wick, a local company chartered him a light aircraft
The chartered surveyors firm of D. M. Hall in Edinburgh arranged a five-seater aircraft to take McNeill to Wick yesterday morning and return him by* 2 p.m. for the awards function later In the day.
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Press, 30 July 1986, Page 48
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