THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

An interesting development in the facilities for commercial education was outlined at a meeting of Dundee Chamber of Commerce by the president Mr T.H.H. Walker. He said that various Government departments were very anxious to get in touch with Chambers of Commerce to learn local requirements. The Foreign Office was forming a Foreign Trade Department. A scheme had been drawn up for a five years’ course of evening classes, the first three controlled by the School Board.

50 years ago

Mr and Mrs I. McKay of Errol, will celebrate their first wedding anniversary in September by going on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Majorca. The holiday was the prize won by 22-year-old Mrs McKay in a dry-cleaning competition run by Fishers of Aberfeldy and Perth. Neither Mr McKay (23), nor his wife has been abroad before and this year they intended to tour Scotland. The McKays fly from Birmingham to Palma. The competition was open to all customers of Fishers.

25 years ago

A helicopter crew from the closurethreatened search and rescue base at RAF Leuchars helped save the life of a young air cadet after he was seriously hurt in a 50-foot fall on Ben Lui, near Crianlarich. Edinburgh University student David Pascall (18) of Linlithgow was hillwalking with a party of 12 ATC cadets and six instructors from the 439 (Linlithgow) squadron when he lost his footing near the 3,708-foot summit and fell. A Wessex was airborne within seconds of the alarm being raised.

One year ago

Roy Hodgson has stepped down as England manager after the shock Euro 2016 exit to Iceland. The smallest nation to grace a major tournament inflicted one of the most humiliating defeats in English football history. Wayne Rooney’s fourth-minute penalty proved a false dawn as Ragnar Sigurdsson and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson capitalised on errors to secure Iceland a deserved 2-1 victory. It was a result that brought an end to Hodgson’s four-year reign at the helm.