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The Inverness Courier is a local, bi-weekly newspaper, ... Dr. Robert Carruthers [7] was editor from April 1828 until his death in 1878, [8] ...
Kim Avis (also known as Vince Avis, Kem Avis, Ken Gordon-Avis, Kim Gordon and Cameron MacGregor) is a British musician and market trader who fled from Scotland to the United States before faking his own death. [1] [2] He was extradited back to Scotland, where he was convicted of sexual abuse offences, including rape. [3]
Renee MacRae (born Christina Catherine MacDonald, February 1940) [1] was a Scottish woman who disappeared on 12 November 1976, together with her 3-year-old son Andrew. Their case was the United Kingdom's longest-running missing persons case, [2] and within Scotland is as notorious as Glasgow's Bible John murders.
[3] [4] She married Evan Barron (1879–1965), historian and owner and editor of The Inverness Courier newspaper. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] They lived at Westerlea House, owned by Gladys Barron until her death in 1967 when it was bought and converted into a hotel.
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster was born when the Inverness Courier, a newspaper in the nearby Scottish city, published a story entitled "Strange Spectacle on Loch Ness". [2] As the Courier began reporting more sightings, other newspapers picked up the story, with international reporters coming to the Loch by October. [3]
Angus Bethune Reach (23 January 1821 – 15 November 1856) [1] was a 19th-century British writer, noted for both his journalism and fiction. He was an acquaintance of such contemporary novelists as William Makepeace Thackeray and Edmund Yates, [1] and counted the journalist and novelist Shirley Brooks as his greatest friend.
Peter Axel William Locke King, 5th Earl of Lovelace (26 November 1951 – 31 January 2018), [1] [2] styled Viscount Ockham before 1964, was a British peer.. Lovelace succeeded his father, Peter King, 4th Earl of Lovelace, in 1964.
Gordon Semple was born in Inverness on 13 June 1956. He grew up in the Raigmore area and attended Inverness High School. [1] At the age of 18, Semple moved to London and got a job at the Bank of Scotland. [9] In 1974, [10] Semple joined the Metropolitan Police in 1983, later becoming constable in the antisocial behaviour unit. [11]