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Anger at 'war graves picnickers' (Scotland)

Signs are to be erected at Culloden Battlefield asking visitors to respect the site as a war grave following a complaint about picnickers.

A member of A Circle of Gentlemen, a society which recalls the Jacobite cause, said he was furious at the behaviour of some tourists.

Alasdair MacNeill said he saw a family picnicking on top of one of the grave mounds.

Culloden, near Inverness, saw the defeat of the Jacobites in April 1746.

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