Noisy little blighters should be drugged

A Crieff woman is calling for the Noise Abatement Society to stop birds singing early in the morning.

She said she had nothing against birds in their own place but when they begin their dawn chorus at 3.30am and by 4.00 have worked themselves up to the frenzy of a non-stop alarm clock then she thinks it high time the problem is tackled.

She suggests that it is surely not beyond the wit of the pharmaceutist to produce bird seeds containing a harmless narcotic which could be sprinkled around the lawns of those who wish to sleep all night and which would keep the “little blighters” in their nests until a more reasonable hour.

After Archie Fisher, that well-known rally driver, finishes the Scottish Rally this week, he sings at Crieff Folk Club next week. He is better known as one of Scotland’s foremost folk singers. Archie’s rallying experiences have provided him with material for a new song which has come from the backwoods of the Scottish forests: ‘The Ballad of Mini Cooper’.

Warrants for the demolition of Muthill Station and outbuildings and for Station Cottages, Auchterarder, were granted to the British Railways Board by Perth County Council’s buildings committee last week.

Two of the men who were caught red- handed trying to break into an Auchterarder shop changed their plea to guilty when they discovered police had been tipped off about their raid and were hiding, watching them.