5 years ago
The skull of the director of 1920s silent horror movie classic Nosferatu has been stolen from his grave in Germany. The desecration of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s grave at the cemetery in Stahnsdorf, outside Berlin, was discovered on Monday, authorities revealed. Olaf Ihlefeldt, the cemetery administrator, said it was difficult to ascertain exactly when the incident took place, but that it was likely to have been between July 4 and 12. It was not clear whether Murnau was targeted specifically.
10 years ago
It is a bestselling games system, but now the technology behind Wii consoles has been used for the first time in a Scottish operating theatre. A new pain-relief implant that mimics Wii-style technology was trialled in Glasgow yesterday. Ailsa Mackenzie-summers, 42, from East Kilbride, became the first patient to benefit from the new technology when NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Dr Gordon Mcginn fitted the neurostimulator implant at Glasgow’s New Victoria Hospital.
25 years ago
Grandmother Mrs Ann Rollinson thought her bottle feeding worries were behind her but the latest addition to her family really is a little monkey. Mrs Rollinson and her husband, Gordon, keep marmosets at their home in Oban and one has just given birth to three babies. Unfortunately, marmosets will only look after two babies at a time and the runt of the litter, Rocky, was abandoned. Now Mr and Mrs Rollinson are taking turns at feeding Rocky from a tiny pipette with human baby milk every two hours.
50 years ago
Port employers have told the Transport and General Workers’ Union that they will refuse to negotiate on the dockers’ pay claim until there is a resumption of work, and in any case are not prepared to increase the basic rate, Mr Tim O’leary, national docks officer of the TGWU, said last night in London.
He was speaking after a meeting with Mr Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, at the Minister’s Department.
100 years ago
Early yesterday morning, about five o’clock, Mr Ross, who resides in Masefield Avenue, Cambuslang, observed a deer outside his house and owing to its exhausted condition he was able to effect its capture. The animal was given to Mr Hall, superintendent of Cambuslang Public Park, who has erected a house for its comfort, and a run is being prepared so that it may regain some of its former liberty. The deer is a splendid specimen of a roe between three and four years of age.