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Teenager on training course named as avalanche victim

A teenager on a winter skills training course has been named as the third person killed by an avalanche last week.

Police today issued this picture supplied by William Currie's family but declined to say who the baby in the image is.
Police today issued this picture supplied by William Currie's family but declined to say who the baby in the image is.

William Currie, 18, from Penzance in Cornwall, was on a course at Glenmore Lodge, the Scottish National Outdoor Training Centre on the foothills of the Cairngorms, when he was trapped as a large weight of snow moved.

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