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Lager lovelies: everyday girls who became Scottish icons

Photographer Mel Gillies took the everyday girl on the street and made her an icon in his Tennent’s “lager lovelies” campaign.

The photographer, who has died suddenly aged 65, leaves an indelible mark on Scottish social history with the campaign that put glamour within reach of

everyone who lifted a can of the famous lager.