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Extract from the Dunblane and Doune Travel Guides:
Frequent trains, bus #58 (and bus #358 in school term-time) make the journey four miles north of Stirling to
DUNBLANE
, a small, attractive place which has been an important ecclesiastical centre since the seventh century, when the Celts founded the Church of St Blane here. Despite the length of its history, however, it is the more recent past which the town prefers to put gently to one side, Dunblane having witnessed a horrific massacre in March 1996, when one Thomas Hamilton entered a local primary school and shot dead fifteen children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself. Scene of an intensely moving memorial service f...
read the whole Dunblane and Doune Travel Guides...
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