Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter A Perthshire park is to be renamed after the high court judge who led the public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
Sir William Alan Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie died aged 94 in February this year. A Blairgowrie park will be renamed after him in recognition of the work he did in the town and in the local community as a whole.
At a Perth and Kinross Council committee meeting this week, councillors unanimously backed a request to change the name of Blairgowrie’s Riverside Park to Sir William Macpherson Park.
The request came from Blairgowrie and Rattray Community Council.Sir William was laird of Newton Castle in Blairgowrie and had lived
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