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Missing Mural!

A MURAL 20 feet long by four feet high has gone missing.And no-one knows where it is.

Commissioned in 1986 to depict the history of Stranraer, it was paid for out of the residents committee funds at Bellevilla House in the town.

It went on display in time to mark what was the last extension at Bellevilla, which closed in 1999.

Now Peter Tuckfield, who was the officer-in-charge at Bellevilla then, wants to track it down and present it to Stranraer Museum.

Trouble is, in spite of its size it was painted in three sections it cannot be found.

Mr Tuckfield has ascertained that CIC, who took over the running of old folks' homes in the region from the council, said they left it there when they moved out.