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Local jockey Alan Doyle is back on winning form and says he’s relishing living a quiet and peaceful life in the Langholm hills.
The Irish jump jockey, who turned 29 this week, is winning again at life after fighting his way back from more than a decade of cocaine and alcohol addiction and managing to pull himself through rehab.
Read more in this week’s paper….
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