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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 ...

In the weekend essay, Ms Skinner and her siblings said they believed this dark family story must also be part of Munro's legacy. "I never wanted to see another interview, biography or event that ...