THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

Armadale’s New Year trip to Dundee has been somewhat disastrous. Following upon their 4-0 defeat by Dundee at Dens Park on New Year’s Day, Dundee Hibs beat the team by two goals to nothing yesterday. Play was of a somewhat disappointing nature, shooting being a lost art so far as Armadale was concerned. Their work in the open field was quite good, but at close quarters they cracked quite badly. Hibs had considerably the larger portion of the play in the second half.

50 years ago

A Burntisland man, Alexander McKelvie, 40, of 94 Somerville Street, was fined £10 at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court yesterday when he admitted having in his possession without lawful authority a knife with a 3¾ inch blade. McKelvie had been wearing Highland dress and the knife in question was a skean dhu. He denied that on January 1 in Burntisland he assaulted William Pirie and stabbed him with the knife. The court was informed that McKelvie was a piper in his spare time.

25 years ago

A baby girl who disappeared four months ago has been reunited with her overjoyed mother after being found unharmed in a telephone kiosk. Baby Irram – whose first birthday was on December 16 – was reunited with her 23-year-old mother Nasreen Siddiq in a west London hospital after being allegedly abducted from near her home in Birmingham in September. She was found in a pushchair in the call-box and a police hunt has been launched to find whoever harboured Irram.

One year ago

Cars are being traded on social media for used video games consoles in Dundee and the surrounding area. Police Scotland’s Tayside Division said the online sales are a growing problem in the region, citing another case where somebody was driving a vehicle without any brakes. The revelations come as part of a Courier investigation into how roads are policed. Head of road policing Inspector Ray Cuthil said the newly-emerging problem was being “nipped in the bud”.