The daughter of American folk singer Woody Guthrie is to help raise awareness of Huntington’s disease in Scotland. Nora Guthrie is following in the footsteps of her father, who had Huntington’s and visited Scotland when he served on a merchant ship during the Second World War. The singer, who died from complications of the disease aged 55 in 1967, is considered one of the key figures in 20th century American folk music. His daughter, who is president of the Woody Guthrie Foundation, is in Scotla