'Because of an ice-cream'
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When Wicklow man Brian Hughes stopped off in Groomsport to buy an ice-cream while on holiday, he had no idea how life changing it would prove to be.
Beside the freezer was a stack of out-of-date local newspapers.
His grandmother, Dorothy Tait, used to write a column for the County Down Spectator, external, and Brian thought he would buy one for old times' sake.
"The girl in the shop said: ‘You do know that's last week's paper?' And I said, oh that doesn't matter. I'm buying it for sentimental reasons,” he told BBC News NI.
When the 74-year-old returned to his car, to his astonishment he recognised a picture at the top of the front page from a frame that sat above his late mother Beryl's piano.
It was of RAF Sergeant John McCalla Tait, his mother's cousin..Rest of the story here:
