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5 YEARS AGO
Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, pictured, face claims they misled parliament over government legal advice on the status of an independent Scotland in Europe, following a Freedom of Information inquiry by The Herald. Both the First Minister and his deputy told MSPS in late October ministers had commissioned “specific advice” from the government law officers on the topic. However, in response to a longrunning FOI case, the government has now confirmed it was not until two months later, on December 18, ministers submitted the request. 10 YEARS AGO
Motorists at one of Scotland’s biggest out-of-town shopping centres will face £60 fines if they abuse disabled and parent-and-child parking spaces, it was announced yesterday. Managers at Braehead, near Glasgow, are introducing the fines – which will be halved if paid within 10 days – on March 31 in a bid to free up more spaces. It follows a similar move by supermarket giant Asda, which is using the same private company, Town and City Parking, to levy fines from the end of the month. The company is licensed by the DVLA to issue civil penalties.
25 YEARS AGO
Scottish militant councillor Tommy Sheridan was arrested yesterday after an alleged incident on the
Timex picket line. Police clashed with sacked workers and their supporters before two buses carrying replacement workers entered the factory. Fifteen other arrests were made.
50 YEARS AGO
An independent panel is to investigate why the cost of the Red Road housing project in Balornock may exceed the original figure by £2.5m. A housing sub-committee of Glasgow Corporation yesterday recommended this unprecedented step, following a report the estimated cost of constructing 1,354 houses will be £8,456,024, compared with the probable cost of £5,950,000 given in 1963.
100 YEARS AGO
At a meeting of the Vale of Leven Food Control Committee at Alexandria a discussion took place in regard to the fishing rights of Loch Lomond. It was stated there was a sufficiency of fish in the loch to meet the requirements not only of the Vale of Leven but of other districts, and the committee were of opinion that permission should be granted not only to net powans but any other kind of fish.
150 YEARS AGO
Yesterday about noon, fire was discovered to have broken out in a two-storey building in Rutherglen, occupied by Alex. Wilson, baker, and Robert Edgar, saddler. The fire, which appears to have originated in the bakehouse, speedily obtained a mastery over the whole property, and it was at one time feared it would extend to a three-storey building fronting Main Street.