ON a bleak, drizzly morning, in a cemetery alongside the M8 motorway, work began on exhuming a grave which may contain the body of missing schoolgirl Moira Anderson.
ON a bleak, drizzly morning, in a cemetery alongside the M8 motorway, work began on exhuming a grave which may contain the body of missing schoolgirl Moira Anderson.
INVESTIGATION: Police forensics teams begin exhuming a grave in Old Monkland cemetery, Coatbridge, in the search for the body of missing schoolgirl Moira Anderson, who disappeared in 1957. Pictures: Jamie Simpson
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Moira disappeared almost 56 years ago, when she was 11, and detectives believe she may be buried in a plot in Old Monkland Cemetery in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.
Yesterday, just as the light was coming up and the M8 rush hour traffic was getting heavier, forensic anthropologist Sue Black, of Dundee University, and her team of three started to sift through the earth.
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