THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

The German strategic retreat has developed over the weekend into something bordering on flight. The enemy is hurriedly withdrawing before the Franco-British Forces on a front of roughly 80 miles. Sir Douglas Haig in his report last night stated that the British soldiers had advanced on a front of approximately 45 miles from Arras to Chauines to a depth of up to 10 miles in places. The Commander-in-Chief also reports the occupation of Peronne, Chauines and Nesle.

50 years ago

A couple who met in a dance hall are to be married in Dundee West Registry Office today. Nothing unusual you might think...except that the dance hall was in Hong Kong. Mr Peter Cheung (27), a waiter in the Rice Bowl Restaurant, Cowgate, Dundee, is marrying Miss Hon Fong Kong (23), a typist. They met five years ago and have been engaged for two. Peter came to Scotland a year ago. He speaks very good English – all picked up during his year in Dundee. A party will be held in the Rice Bowl.

25 years ago

One of the biggest civil engineering works ever carried out in Dundee is well on course for completion by October – as targeted when work began in autumn 1990. The £13 million inner ring road project centres on a 145m long tunnel – known locally as “Dundee’s Channel Tunnel” – burrowing under Victoria Road. The tunnel is now rapidly taking shape with both ends and a middle section complete. Following completion of the tunnel, attention will be concentrated on the road system to the west.

One year ago

Britain’s highest mountain has “grown” by a metre in the last 65 years, experts have discovered. A new Ordnance Survey (OS) calculation found Ben Nevis stands at 1,345m rather than the previously recorded height of 1,344m. The change, which will be displayed on all new OS digital and paper maps, is not down to a geological movement but is simply due to improvements in technology that allow a more accurate reading than when the mountain was last surveyed in 1949.