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Family of Tragic Eilidh Issue Heartfelt Thanks to Piping World

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The family of 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod who lost her life in the Manchester terrorist bomb outrage on May 22 have issued a statement thanking the piping and pipe band world for their messages of support and condolences at their loss. Eilidh, from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, was one of 22 people who died when a bomb was detonated at the Manchester Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande…

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Island of Tears as Piper Eilidh Goes Home to Barra

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Piper Eilidh MacLeod’s body has been returned to her native Barra in the Western Isles. Her coffin was draped in the Barra flag as it was carried from the aircraft on the Traigh Mhor airstrip with P/Sgt Duncan Nicholson of Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band leading the procession. The Scotsman reported: ‘The body of Manchester terror victim Eilidh MacLeod has been repatriated to the Outer Hebrides ahead of the first funeral…

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