THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

At a meeting of Carnoustie Food Control Committee Bailie Nicoll, convener of the Milk Prices SubCommittee, reported that they had again met the local dairymen, who had the usual story that milk couldn’t be produced at the price fixed for May – 1s 2d to retailer and 2s to customer. The difficulty was they couldn’t get any of the milkmen to produced figures and it was all a matter of argument and debate. Bailie Nicoll said he was just a little anxious about the local supply of milk.

50 years ago

Four-year-old Karen Philips of Crieff was a proud girl yesterday as she rode the 18-year-old Shetland pony Cruachan, mascot of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Stirling Castle on his “comeback” to service after a four-year retirement on a farm near Stirling. Karen is the younger daughter of Gordon Philips, headquarters, Highland Area, Perth. Cruachan will be busy with engagements starting this week when he will take part in an Argyll’s recruiting campaign parade in Glasgow.

25 years ago

Monica Seles, the world’s top woman tennis player, was in hospital after a spectator jumped from the stands at a tournament in Germany and attacked her with a knife. Organisers of the Hamburg tournament said Seles suffered a cut of between one and two centimetres near her spine after the knife was hurled at her. Doctors said the knife barely missed the spinal cord but no vital organs were damaged, although Seles had suffered shock. “She is not in pain and can speak,” they added.

One year ago

Dundee’s most historic school buildings will need £15 million worth of upgrades to ensure they remain fit-for-purpose. The city council expects to spend £5m on the upkeep of its Victorian and Edwardian schools, such as Glebelands and Clepington primaries, over the next five years. It will then have to spend double that sum in ensuing years to upgrade the schools. The money is just part of the £111.7m the council expects to spend on its school estate by 2022.