The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
The preservation and training of young life as an offset to battlefield losses was emphasised at the Mars Training Ship meeting in Dundee. A surplus of the accounts had been transferred to the capital fund, and in the report regarding the boys it was stated that out of 313 boys who had left the ship during the three years 1914 to 1916, inclusive, 292 were classed as satisfactory, 14 as fairly satisfactory and only seven as unsatisfactory. Out of 28 boys who had died, 22 were killed on naval or military service.
50 years ago
Meet the belles who ring the bells. Every Sunday morning they rush bright and early to Barony Church, Kirriemuir. And as the other kirkgoers prepare to leave their homes, Fiona Mearns and Joyce Cook start ringing the church bells. Fiona, 14, and Joyce, 13, are both second year pupils of Kirriemuir High School and patrol leaders in the 1st Kirriemuir Company of the Girl Guides. They volunteered for bellringing when the Rev JM Skinner asked for volunteers from the Bible class and Sunday school.
25 years ago
A man who took what he thought was a £40 painting scrounged from a neighbour along to the BBC Antiques Roadshow in Norfolk was stunned to discover the landscape was, in fact, a valuable early work of Dundee artist James McIntosh Patrick. Viewers watched as the name of one of the country’s most respected landscape artists failed to make an impression on the man until the art expert explained that the piece was worth about £5,000£6,000. The painting had been rescued from piles of rubbish.
One year ago
Tayside primary schools will no longer offer fruit juice to pupils under a region-wide strategy. The initiative will outlaw juice from schools after council bosses ruled the drinks contained excessive levels of sugar. Fruit juice will be removed as a lunchtime option for children, with milk and water being offered instead. According to Tayside Contracts, which made the decision along with the councils, the removal of fruit juice as an option is “a positive step towards healthier eating.”