THE ARCHIVES

“It seems to be a growing fashion nowadays to relegate the business of great commercial centres to little pottering county towns,” remarked Mr Arthur King at a meeting of the Arbroath Food Control Committee held yesterday, at which Mr Finlayson, the Town Clerk, submitted the correspondence which had passed between himself and the Divisonal Food Commissioner regarding the changes under the new Food Control Scheme. Arbroath was to be absorbed into the area of the present county of Forfar.

50 years ago

Progressive pop fans were treated to a double bill of top quality at the Caird Hall, Dundee, last night. Tyrannosaurus Rex and Ten Years After appeared and a large audience relaxed to the high-pitched falsetto strains of the voice of Marc Bolan, of Tyrannosaurus. With Micky Finn this unique duo played a wide range of instruments including acoustic, electric and bass guitars, bongo drums, organ bells and a Chinese gong. Ten Years After came on stage to a loud cheer and played hard rock/blues.

A street in a Perth housing scheme was cordoned off last night as emergency services dealt with a chemical spillage which was giving off poisonous fumes. One man was taken to Perth Royal Infirmary as a precaution but was later released. Fire officers wearing chemical suits and breathing apparatus dealt with the spillage – from the boot of a car in the street – which involved what was believed at first to be chemical weedkiller. It was later identified as a pesticide called Gramoxone which contains paraquat.