The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
Sheriff Dudley Stuart was engaged at Cupar for seven hours yesterday hearing evidence is the cross actions by Thomas Walker, Kilmaron, Cupar, and Charles Hunter, Bowhill Hotel, the former suing for £174 and the latter for £225, representing damages to their respective motor cars. The cars had collided at the crossroads at Loftybank, near Ladybank, Mr Walker being knocked through the windscreen. The mass of evidence was led with the view of proving that the Kirkcaldy to Newport road was a main road.
50 years ago
Forfar’s most successful carnival to date concluded after a five-day programme watched by 10,000 folk. On Saturday, 5,000 went to the Myre for the afternoon and evening entertainments. Highlight of yesterday’s programme was the vintage car rally, organised by the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club, which attracted 50 entries. Almost 1,000 attended the afternoon concert given by the Forfar instrumental and pipe bands in the Reid Park where the programme included a gymnastic display by Forfar Academy.
An important piece of Dundee’s maritime history, the old Tay ferry Abercraig, has been scrapped in Malta despite the Abercraig Action Committee’s efforts to return her to Dundee. The Abercraig – the last surviving “Fifie” – has been in Valetta harbour, Malta, since 1968 after she and her sister ship Scotscraig were taken out of service with the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966. The scrapping of the boat was discovered inadvertently by Dundee man Alan Brown while on holiday in Malta.
One year ago
Angus health chiefs are launching an action plan in a bid to reverse a rising fall rate among the area’s OAPs that is bucking the national downward trend. The number of pensioners admitted to hospital following a fall has rocketed by a third in the past three years to more than 25 in every 1,000, putting the area well above the national average and accounting for more than 6% of all emergency cases. In a single month last year 80 over-65s were taken to A&E. Almost half of those taking a tumble are over 85.