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Portrait completed 2007.
This years event with portrait. Witches Remembrance 2007
Helen Duncan
The Helen Duncan pardon press story continues to grow with recent articles in the Glasgow Sunday Herald and now The Sunday Express. The extraordinary press coverage kicked off with a Glasgow Herald piece, where Mary Martin (Helen Duncan's grandaughter) was pictured laying a sprig of herbs of The Witches Gestalt,Prestonpans at Haloween Remembrance last October that led to the Edinburgh Evening News and Scotsman covering the story, which led onto BBC Newsnight (and website), then it was News at Ten (but it got pulled), then that led to The Guardian Leader, then Sevirins Carrels article, which kicked start the petition over xmas, then it went crazy in Jan with worldwide press coverage, with Reuters and PA picking it up, including the NBC/MSN poll of 16,000 and the 70 articles worldwide, plus the 300 + blogs, then CNN and now Channel Four News.
There are three petitions one at Downing Street and a bigger one Prestoungrange Arts festival and another going to the Scottish Parliament.
Of course Helen Duncan lived in Craigmillar for many years, her family have lived here including Mary Martin in The Thistle foundation.
The Guardian, Leader, 8th December 2006
The Guardian article, 13th Jan 2007 The Witches Voice