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Legendary trade union leader who took on Ted Heath and won dead at 84
Leader of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, trade unionist Davie Cooper, has died at the age of 84, after a long career as union convenor at the Govan yard and a powerful figure behind the scenes
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'Derek Draper - or 'Dolly' as I knew him - was the life and soul of the party'
The Mirror's Paul Routledge writes about his memories of Derek Draper: 'It is the conviviality that survives. I can hear Dolly now, voice raised, hair swept back, head tilted, grinning'