Thirty years after the mass shooting at Dunblane Primary School, one of the first journalists on the scene recalls the day and reflects on its legacy

It’s 30 years since a lone gunman walked into a primary school in Dunblane carrying four handguns with 743 rounds of ammunition. He killed 16 children alongside their teacher and injured 15 others. He

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MICK NORTH recalls the day his daughter, Sophie, was killed in the Dunblane tragedy

12 MARCH

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i