From the archives

25 YEARS AGO The Evening Times advertising campaign, Gaun Yer Dinger, promoting the newspaper’s serialisation of the second edition of The Patter on Glasgow dialect, has been voted the best entry in the radio category at this year’s Roses Awards ceremony in Manchester. Scripted by copywriter John Simpson of McCann-Erickson Scotland, it featured the actor Gregor Fisher as an incomprehensible Glaswegian patter merchant called Tam the Bam. 50 YEARS AGO Jimmy Logan, the Scottish comedian, has bought the Metropole Theatre, St George’s Cross, Glasgow, for a sum believed to be about £80,000. He told reporters yesterday that his wife and his father and mother, Jack and May Short (“Pa and Ma Logan”), will be directors of a new company who will run the theatre. He said:-“The Logan family are in sole control of the theatre. No one else has a financial interest in it.” 100 YEARS AGO During the course of the week a number of serious cases of sheepworrying have been reported to the Lanark police authorities. On Wednesday morning a sheep grazing on a filed in the vicinity of Mouse bank Road was found to have been badly worried. On Thursday five lambs on a field in the vicinity of the town were so badly worried that all of them died. One of these lambs was discovered buried in a hole, having been dragged there and covered with earth by the dog. 150 YEARS AGO We have been requested to call attention to a cricket match, to be played today, between the West of Scotland Cricket Club and the Edinburgh “Academicals,” on the splendid ground of the former at Partick. These clubs being two of the strongest in Scotland, a keen contest is anticipated.