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Richard Baines worked at Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer

ByNichola Rutherford , Reporting fromCastle Douglas and Lori Carnochan, BBC Scotland, Reporting fromLogan Botanic Garden
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Tributes have been paid to a man who died after being hit by a falling tree in Dumfries and Galloway.

Richard Baines, 60, the long-serving curator of Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer, died during Storm Boelo on Sunday morning.

It is understood that he was walking near his home in Mid Kelton, just outside Castle Douglas, when the accident happened.