THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

The Central Wool Advisory Committee make the following recommendations: The present wool position and the heavy military needs make it necessary that steps should at once be taken to accumulate in this country a considerable reserve of wool. In order to achive this object and to maintain the export trade so far as possible drastic curtailment of production for home consumption is essential. Manufacturers and spinners should be rationed in wool and urged to economise.

50 years ago

Carnoustie Library Committee would like to gather together copies of the many old books published in the town’s earliest days and recalling stories of the village from which it grew. “The demand for this type of information is increasingly great,” said Mr H. J. Chapman at the Public Library Committee meeting. It was suggested that as the owners of such books may have no wish to part with them it might be possible to receive them on loan, to be returned when the owners requested.

25 years ago

Barbara Mills QC made history when she started work as the first woman Director of Public Prosecutions. Mrs Mills (51), formerly director of the Serious Fraud Office, stood on the steps of the Crown Prosecution Service’s London headquarters and said she was looking forward to the challenge. She said a disappointment facing her new start was the Government advisory committee decision that the CPS had failed to win the right for its lawyers to present cases in higher courts.

One year ago

Pop superstar Prince has died at the age of 57. His body was discovered at his Paisley Park home in Minnesota yesterday. The music star was found unresponsive in a lift by police after they were called to his house. Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said the first people on the scene had tried to revive the star with CPR. The singer was pronounced dead at the scene and his death is being investigated. Prince, whose real name was Prince Rogers Nelson, suffered a medical emergency last weekend.