The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
Many Lancashire factory lasses are developing a taste for wandering, and two more have been added to the number who have disappeared from their homes. The girls are Mary Fitzgerald and Nellie Talbot, and it is stated that stage and screen acting had an attraction for both. They have taken part in beauty competitions. A clergyman expresses the opinion that screen romances are making many factory girls dissatisfied with the monotony of mill life. “Many of the girls believe they are born screen stars,” he said.
50 years ago
A lorry driver’s quick reactions saved him from severe injury and possibly death in a Perthshire glen yesterday. John Hughes (55) of Wallasey, leaped from the cabin of his oil tanker just as it was about to plunge more than 20 feet down an embankment into a burn on the Quarry Bends, Glenfarg. Even at this, Mr Hughes was amazingly lucky not to be badly injured, for as the tanker, which was carrying 1,200 gallons of oil toppled over, the side of one of the back wheels struck him on the ankles.
Angry residents living next to Baxter Park, Dundee, claim the District Council are carrying out “wholesale slaughter” of pigeons roosting in the park pavilion. They say pigeons have been starved, poisoned and shot in an attempt to clear them from the roof space of the building prior to its redevelopment. A spokeswoman for the council said: “Netting was installed to try to prevent the pigeons from roosting. The council has not used poison and regular checks are carried out to release trapped birds.”
One year ago
Carnoustie Golf Links Management Committee and Angus Council have been hit with a compulsory purchase order by energy giant Seagreen, with the firm wanting to use the land for a cable linked to its planned offshore wind farm off the Angus coastline. Elected members are being asked to lodge an objection to the surprise move when they meet next week. Carnoustie Golf Links have indicated they will object to the order,which local independent councillor David Cheape has described as “unnecessary”.