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    Book launch celebrates life and times of the ‘Voice of Rugby’

    Friday, November 6th, 2026 - Written by GARY ALEXANDER
    Author Murray Watson at Mansfield Park last Friday night as Allan McCredie and Linda Lawson look on.

    Mansfield Park, Bill McLaren’s “happy place”, was the setting last Friday night for the launch of a new biography on the ‘Voice of Rugby’ by fellow Teri, Murray Watson.

    Subtitled, *‘They’ll be dancing in the streets of Hawick’, The Life and Times of Bill McLaren* drew its inspiration from a huge new digitised archive created by the author, the Bill McLaren Foundation, and the University of Stirling.

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