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LOCAL HEROES RAISE £3,500

Every child has their heroes. For James ‘Suds’ Sutherland they were footballers and lifeboat crew. So when ‘Suds’, a lifelong Celtic supporter with strong family links to the RNLI, died of a brain tumour in 2015, his friends found the perfect way to remember him. ‘We decided to have a local Celtic versus Rangers match, the ‘Suds’ Memorial Cup,’ explains friend and organiser Norman Reid. In its first year, the match raised £3,803 for Fraserburgh lifeboat, a charity ‘close to ‘Suds’s’ heart’. Last year’s donations – an incredible £3,500 – were split between the RNLI and a local charity. Fraserburgh lifeboat’s coxswain and James’s cousin, Vic Sutherland, said: ‘It was a tremendous gesture by James’s friends.’