He decided to pick up a chisel and hammer more than 20 years ago learning from a stonemason in Ballyclare, realising very quickly that he’d found his passion. “I remember after the first week ...

A stonemason has become the first person to receive sight-saving emergency retinal surgery in Lincolnshire’s hospitals. Louis ...

Local stonemason Steve Cottle ... important and so I was only too happy to take on the work." It is thought a chisel or other heavy tool was used to gouge out the engraving on the stone.