Britain’s boxing community is in mourning following the passing of Dick McTaggart, one of the nation's greatest amateur boxers, at the age of 89. The Scottish boxing icon, renowned for his dazzling ...

Mr Spence said: "He once said that boxing had basically been his hobby. "He did say once he had been offered, I think it was in the 1950s, £1,000 by one promoter, which was a fortune in those days.