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5 YEARS AGO

Bus company boss Sandy Easdale is the biggest shareholder in

Rangers after buying the “vast majority” of the stake in the club held by Charles Green, pictured. He claims to have concluded a private agreement in May with the Ibrox club’s former chief executive. Mr Green owned 714,285 shares – about 7.7% of the total. Normally, such a significant share purchase would need to be announced by the company to the stock exchange, but Mr Easdale’s spokesman Jack Irvine said it was a private deal Rangers had been unaware of.

10 YEARS AGO

Primary pupils at schools in urban areas across Scotland are being taught with children of different ages as part of moves to meet government class size targets. Councils are using so-called composite classes, which are often unpopular with parents and teachers, because of the need to keep pupil numbers in the first year of primary school down to 25. The most recent example came to light last week in Renfrewshire, where parents from St John Ogilvie Primary in Paisley were told their children were entering a composite class of P1 and P2 pupils.

25 YEARS AGO

Children and teenagers will develop foot problems and deformities because of ill-fitting shoes or socks, according to an expert in podiatric medicine-formerly known as chiropody. Mr Alex Robertson, whose department will treat more than 7,000 patients each year, said many children deliberately bought footwear that is too small because it is less expensive, while others don’t have their feet measured by a trained fitter and are unaware their shoes do not fit properly. The basic rules are to insist on getting shoes and socks which fit properly.

50 YEARS AGO

The Royal Air Force are carrying out an aerial photographic survey of Glasgow’s rooftops to help in checking storm damage repairs to private tenements. Dr J. Dickson Mabon, Minister of State, Scottish Office, said yesterday after meeting members of Glasgow Corporation storm damage committee that the photographs were being processed and notes made on street maps on the state of the roofs. There were critics of the repair operation but it was a complex business, and the aerial photographs would enable a record to be built up of progres.

100 YEARS AGO

The proprietors of the Newlands district of Glasgow met in the hall of the U.F. Church last night for the purpose of considering the revised valuations appearing in the new roll. Councillor Robert Maclaren, who presided, said it was only on Monday that he ascertained the proposal of the City Assessor, and on the following day Bailie Stewart and he had an interview with Mr Walker, who agreed to regard all the parties whose valuations it was proposed to increase as appealing, so as to avoid the necessity of individual action.