Stranraer
Britishnoun
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Hammy McMillan Jr and his cousin Grant Hardie will join fellow Stranraer local Bobby Lammie as part of Team GB, led by skip Bruce Mouat.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
When the Irish sea ferry terminals in Stranraer were closed in 2011- to be moved six miles along the coast to Cairnryan - visitor numbers in the town dwindled.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
It was the pioneering vision of a Stranraer businessman in 1970 that would go on to produce some of Scotland's most successful curlers on the world stage.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
He also managed Cowdenbeath, Stranraer and Clyde but again went back to Celtic, serving as kit man for almost 20 years.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025
I've performed the "tickle-toe" With its forty steps or so, I have learnt a native dance in Costa Rica; I've fox-trotted in Stranraer, Irish-jigged in Mullingar, And I've danced the Dance of Death at Tanganyika.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 by Various
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