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PERSONAL Gordon Snedden was born in Roebank Street, Glasgow on 15 August 1940 and, in 1946, moved with his family to Brechin and, in 1947, to Oathlaw, near Forfar, where he spent his formative years.   Thereafter he lived, and worked, in Forfar, Arbroath and Kirriemuir.   He married Vi in 1962 and they have a daughter Jackie (married to Malcolm) and a son Gary (married to Viv)who all live and work in Edinburgh.   Jackie and Malcolm now have two lovely daughters Sky and Eileen. He worked for Barclay, Ross & Hutchison, Forfar, for one year before joining Angus Constabulary in 1956 as a Police Cadet.  In 1959 he was appointed as a Police Officer and was posted to Arbroath.  After attending a three month training course at Whitburn Training College he was posted to Kirriemuir.  After working for seven years in Kirriemuir he was posted back to Arbroath.   In 1970 he was transferred to plain clothes duties and was in the criminal investigation department for the rest of his service, initially in Arbroath and latterly in Forfar.  He served with the regional crime squad for two years and with the drugs squad for seven years.   In 1984 he was promoted to Detective Sergeant and left the Police Service in 1989. In 1989 he formed a business trading as "Tayside Hilltours" and, for the next ten years he provided guided walking holidays in the Eastern Highlands of Scotland.    From 1990 to 1998 he did part-time work for R R Donnelly U K (Distribution Services) supervising the distribution of Telephone Directories, Yellow Pages and Thompson's Business Pages in Angus, Dundee, Fife & Perthshire.   In 1998/99 and again in 2000/2001 he worked for the General Register Office in Edinburgh as their Census Area Manager with responsibility for Angus & Dundee, initially for a "Census Dress Rehearsal" being carried out in Angus and Dundee, and latterly for the full national census in the same area.   Since 2002 he has been involved with the Angus Glens Hillwalking Festival and the Blairgowrie & East Perthshire Walking Festival working as a guide.   In November 2003 the Angus Glens Hillwalking Festival was awarded the tourism award and adjudged by a panel of judges as Angus Ambassador of the year for promoting tourism in Angus.   The award ceremony was held in Carnoustie Golf Hotel and was compered by Dougie Donnolly, the well known BBC sports commentator.   He sits on various committees relating to the Angus glens.   He has done various interviews for the BBC (both television and radio), the most enjoyable being with Muriel Gray and the most recent being in June 2009.   Gordon is currently available as a speaker on various topics relating to the Angus glens.   Please contact him by email if your group would like a presentation.       Interests - cycling, skiing, hillwalking, gardening, computing, Scottish Country dancing, Ceilidh dancing. and the Angus Cardiac Group.