The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
To a soldier of the old school like Lieutenant General Sir Francis Davies, Barry Camp must yesterday have presented a strange inter-mixture of military life, kindling memories of past campaigns – perhaps regrets. When Sir Francis, who is a General Officer Commanding Scottish Command, passed round the lines of the units he ran across quite a number of veterans in army experience, with whom he chatted for a few moments on bygone times. But the old atmosphere of hard discipline was gone from the scene.
50 years ago
A holidaymaker and a fisherman snatched an unconscious nine-year-old Fife girl from the water at the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick yesterday and then revived her in a salmon coble. Linda McDill, of Glenrothes, was seen in difficulties in the deep channel by salmon fishermen. She had been with her brother Brian who was unable to hold onto her in the strong current. Linda was on a caravan holiday with her family at Berwick. She was treated for shock at Berwick Infirmary.
25 years ago
Although the wrangle over ownership of a £1 million painting hanging in Dundee’s Camperdown House has still not been resolved, it looks likely that the art treasure will stay in the city. The painting of Admiral Duncan receiving the Dutch surrender after the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 has been in Dundee for more than 160 years. There were fears it could be lost after the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh insisted it belonged to them, bequeathed by the last of the Duncans, Lady Buckinghamshire.
One year ago
The head of the emergency planning society for the UK has slammed rail operators amid fears for the safety of travellers “herded like cattle” on east coast trains. LNER and ScotRail have been urged to carry out a booking policy review after passengers were forced to sit in luggage racks and on the floor on services between Dundee and Edinburgh. Jacqui Semple, chairwoman of the Emergency Planning Society for the UK, said no other transport operator would be allowed to operate using this model.