Under the hodden Hebridean sky: The burial of John Smith

Thirty years ago I was on Iona for the interment of Labour's lost leader

The Rt Hon John Smith. Credit: Adam Elder/National Galleries Scotland

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NOTE: This is the first in an occasional series on The Jaggy Thistle where I look back at newspaper stories from almost 40 years in journalism and explain how they were written.

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