The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
Throughout the moorlands of the Central Highlands of Perthshire reports in regard to grouse projects are the most encouraging for the past 15 years. The majority of the usual sportsmen, however, are serving with the Colours and many moors are unlet. Nests averaged 11 to 12 eggs and hatching was so good that broods show an average of 10 birds. The reports for all moors are fairly uniform in character. On all moors there are excellent stocks. All other kinds of game are also doing splendidly.
50 years ago
A Fife pilot received slight leg injuries when his helicopter plunged into a field near Kennoway late yesterday afternoon. Mr John Telford of Clayton, by Dairsie, Cupar, was piloting a Bell helicopter for the Chemical Spraying Company Ltd when it collided with some telephone wires and plunged about 18 feet to the ground. It landed nose first in the potato field it was spraying on the farm of Newton of Kingsdale (Mr James Howie), near Kennoway. Firemen from Methil turned out but were not needed.
25 years ago
Power station worker Robert Welsh has Leven lit up this week – with the news that he has scooped £75,000 in the national Spotting The Ball competition. But the 55-year-old father of two has no plans to move out of his ex-council house in the Methilhill district of the town. “I’ve put blood, sweat and tears into improving this place,” he joked. “There’s no way I’m moving out now!” Robert and his wife Molly are now making plans to be surprise guests at their nephew’s wedding in New York.
One year ago
Plans by Fife Council to raise the Palestinian flag over its headquarters have sparked a row. Fife Council will fly the Palestinian flag over Fife House for one week to raise awareness of and protest against the suffering of the people of Gaza. But the chairman of the Tayside and Fife Jewish Community said it was concerned the council’s decision could “ferment” anti-Jewish sentiment in Scotland. Fife Council has expressed hope that by flying the flag it can add strength to public pressure for a lasting ceasefire.