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Saturday, 21st November 2009

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A forensic study of Burke and Hare's crimes HE story of Burke and Hare's notorious Edinburgh crimes has survived for nearly 200 years.

Brian Whittingham started as an apprentice at John Brown's shipyard on Clydeside when he was just 14, and his five years at the yard, shaped him for life. Now, 40 years on, he has written a book of poetry 'AH'LL GET yi a joab in the yards, / yi'll be fixed up fur life, so yi wull." So Brian Whittingham was promised back in the 1960s when, like legions of others, he became an apprentice in John Brown's shipyard. He was 14.

Your Memories: 'Hearts were Scotland's top team in those days' JOHN FERGUSON, 91, has been a proud Jambo for 85 years. A Heart of Midlothian fan from the age of six, he has followed his team through thick and thin, and was a season ticket holder at Tynecastle until he was 80.

Best of Scotland (D) DICKSON, MAGGIE Fishwife hanged in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, in 1728 for hiding the body of her illegitimate child.

Long live the radical, surreal versions of the Bard dreamed up by Scottish theatre makers to mark his 250th birthday

Many of the great European composers of his era wrote music for Burns's poems – Haydn's is released today

Best Burns song: Your chance to vote

Recalling a violent history

Author battles to clear 'butcher of Culloden'

Coconut Tam and the secrets of Royal Mile

California man dies in shark attack

Anyone descended from Culloden winners?

Isa's wartime memories of battle-hardened city

To be a student takes a degree of eccentricity

Bonnie Prince Charlie ring fetches £12,200

Dark deeds inspire a series of grisly events

Sold on sales for bagging best bargains

Jacobite rebels may yet seal victory

NMS toasts £250,000 grant to research early Scots

How top Nazis were brought to a secret Scottish prison camp for brainwashing

Buccaneering VC hero who defied 19 wounds

Unsung legal hero fought as part of McCrae's Battalion

£700,000 massacre study

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