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Dundee diploma lost for 40 years claimed

The widower of a woman whose diploma from a Dundee college went missing in the post 40 years ago has said he is looking forward to receiving it.

The certificate was sent to Dorothy Sanderson in Arbroath, Angus, in 1970, but never reached her.

She died in 1995, but her widowed husband Dr Andrew Scott was traced after a relative contacted the BBC.

Dundee College received the diploma in the post on Thursday, marked "not at this address".

It had been issued by the then Dundee College of Commerce when Miss Sanderson passed her one-year medical secretarial studies course in 1970 and sent to an address in Montrose Road, Arbroath....
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