THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

The Secretary of the War Office last night made the following announcement regarding the operations in Palestine and Hedjaz: “During the period April 11-17 a series of highly successful raiding operations was carried out by the Arab forces of the King of the Hedjaz against the Hedjaz railway; between April 11 and 14 demolitions were effected at several points north and south of Mann. Two hundred Turkish prisoners and three machine guns were captured in the vicinity.”

50 years ago

A resolution from the Dundee joint branch board of the Scottish Police Federation will go before the federation conference in Dunblane on May 1 and 2, urging legislation to lay down that driving licences must contain photographs of the holders. An official of the federation said in Glasgow that this point had been discussed in Parliament and turned down because it was said it would cost too much. “But it is done in America and it is something which would help the police in Britain,” he said.

25 years ago

Only a month before she is due to have a baby, a Lochgelly builder’s wife was threatened with a knife, tied up, gagged and kicked by robbers looking for money and valuables. Fortunately Mrs Carol Duncan, 35, of Keltybridge and her unborn child do not seem to have suffered any physical injury. “There may be other problems, but she’s a very strong person,” said husband Brian Duncan, 37, in the nine-room home he built three years ago for his family at the end of Abbot’s Wynd.

One year ago

Organisers of the Women’s Open at Kingsbarns have been accused of bunkering planning conditions. Community leaders say they fought to prevent use of a narrow street and obstruction of a walkway when construction of the course was teed off 20 years ago. Both are proposed by IMG, behind the Ricoh British Women’s Open in Augus. Kingsbarns Community Council say this would breach terms of the course’s planning permission. IMG insists it had no intention of breaching conditions.