The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
Italy has been visited by another of those earthquake disasters which have so frequently devastated that country. Violent earthquake shocks were experienced on Sunday over a wide area, as many as 30 disturbances occurring within a period of 14 hours. The city of Florence and many villages in Tuscany were affected and whole areas appear to have been laid waste. While Florence escaped with little or no damage, other places suffered terribly, villages in some cases being reduced to ruins.
50 years ago
Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s management will be counting their audience very carefully as they arrive on Wednesday evening when the one millionth ticket-holder is expected, marking a significant milestone in the history of Scotland’s “Theatre in the Hills.” He, or she, will be greeted personally by Kenneth Ireland, the Festival Theatre’s director and given a warm invitation to be the guest of the management for that performance. The idea is to award the “Freedom of the Theatre” to the ticket-holder.
25 years ago
A find deep in Loch Ness may well enter the annals of truly incredible lost property stories. A mini-submarine crew and a determined Highlands police officer have just solved a mystery that should give a holiday visitor to the loch an unexpected windfall. Fourteen years after a Spanish tourist told police he had lost his leather pouch-bag over the side of the boat, he has been reunited with it, complete with legible notes worth 50,000 pesetas– £235 at today’s exchange rate.
One year ago
Hundreds of Fife manufacturing jobs are hanging by a thread after crisis hit furniture group Havelock Europa revealed it was on the cusp of calling in administrators. Shares in the AIM-listed firm were suspended as the struggling group desperately sought new sources of funding to keep trading. However, the crisis has now deepened with the group filing a statutory notice giving it 10 days to find a solution to its cash flow issue or face collapse. The shopfitter is one of Fife’s largest employers with 320 staff on its books.