THE ARCHIVES

Two shop burglaries occurred in Carnoustie at an early hour on Sunday. About 7.30 yesterday morning it was discovered that the shops of William Bradburn, licensed grocer, Station Road, and William Murdoch, licensed grocer, Ireland Street, had been entered. The former had the glass door broken and the latter had been entered by a side window. Mr Murdoch’s till was relieved of 25s, which had been left overnight, but at Bradburn’s the only gain was several farthings and an old Boer coin.

50 years ago

Mrs Elsie Taylor, Sibbald Street, Dundee, who will be 97 this month, has won a contest organised by a wool firm to find the country’s oldest knitter. She specialises in multi-coloured patchwork effect cushions which she delights in presenting to friends and relatives and which now brighten homes as far away as New Zealand and Australia. Remarkably alert and spry for her years, Mrs Taylor loves her knitting. From morning to night her needles click away happily and she says she has knitted “cartloads” of socks.

A £1.1 million day surgery unit, which health officials believe will help transform the face of healthcare in Perthshire, was opened by Scottish Health Minister Lord Fraser of Carmyllie at Perth Royal Infirmary yesterday. Since it began treating its first patients last year, the PRI unit has steadily increased its workload and is already running at the rate of more than 3,000 operations a year in the fields of oral surgery, community dentistry, plastic, paediatric and general surgery and the relief of intractable pain.

One year ago

A man was airlifted to hospital with spinal injuries following a dramatic three-hour rescue effort in Highland Perthshire after the climber fell nearly 50ft from a rockface near Aberfeldy. Witnesses said they heard screaming coming from the popular Weem Crags climbing spot as emergency services scrambled to the scene yesterday afternoon. A search and rescue helicopter and the ambulance service’s special operations response team rushed to help the victim. The man was in his 20s.