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Gifted science teacher who boosted youngsters' uptake of physics in school dies, aged 47.
Kevin Costello, principal teacher of science at Wick High, was killed instantly in a car accident near Thurso last month. He was 47.
Kevin was born in Broxburn, West Lothian, to Marie and Patrick Costello. He and his siblings, Michael, Patricia, John and his twin Kathleen, spent the next eight years in Linlithgow, where Kevin went to St Joseph's Primary. The family then moved to Grangemouth, where he attended the Sacred Heart Primary, followed by St Mungo's High.
Kevin graduated with a first in chemical physics from Edinburgh University in 1985 and followed this with a...