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Craig Millar (born November 1956, Glasgow, Scotland ) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Educated at Morgan Academy in Dundee, Millar joined the publishing company DC Thomson in July 1974 and subsequently worked for The Courier, Evening Telegraph and Sporting Post. In April 1981, Millar became the Tayside correspondent of The Scotsman, covering stories such as the mass redundancies at the Timex watch making plant in Dundee. In March 1984, Millar joined BBC Radio Scotland News, again operating primarily in the Tayside area.In February 1986 Millar moved to Grampian Television as an Aberdeen based news reporter for the North Tonight programme. He was one of the first broadcast journalists at the scene of the Chinook helicopter disaster off Sumburgh, Shetland in November 1986 in which 45 men died.In July 1988, Millar was involved in coverage of the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea which led to the deaths of 167 men. On the morning after the Occidental platform exploded, he presented ITV's current affairs programme The Time The Place which was broadcast live across the UK. Millar became the Scotland correspondent of the former breakfast television station TV-am in 1989. The following year he presented coverage of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Millar rejoined Grampian TV in July 1991, operating as a reporter from its Dundee studio. After the acquisition of Grampian by STV, Millar produced and presented two eponymous documentary series, Craig Millar Reports and The Craig Millar Files which covered events such as the disappearance of Elgin woman Arlene Fraser and the involvement of the Black Watch army regiment in the second Gulf War. Millar became Bureau Chief in Dundee after a local news opt out was introduced to the STV News at Six programme in 2007 before returning to general reporting in 2016. Millar retired from STV in 2018 and is now writing football articles for publications such as Nutmeg and Backpass.