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C anadian writer Alice Munro's daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed with him, in a damning account published after the ...

He gave his name to Scotland's Munros - but the mountaineer who was tasked with listing the country's highest peaks never got the chance to climb them all. Sir Hugh Munro, who inspired the ...