Local News

A remarkable piece of memorabilia from the collection of an Angus Victoria Cross holder has come home to the county. Charles Melvin from Kirriemuir was awarded Britain’s highest gallantry award for his heroic action in the battlefield of Istabulat in Iraq on the day of April 21 1917, see page 11. PR guru Max Clifford has been found guilty of a string of indecent assaults on teenage girls in the first conviction under sex crime inquiry Operation Yewtree. The 71-year-old celebrity publicist was convicted of eight indecent assaults and cleared of two at Southwark Crown Court yesterday, with the jury unable to reach a verdict on one other count, see page 17.