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5 years ago

The biggest bus depot in the UK has been officially opened by the First Minister. Nicola Sturgeon was given a tour of the headquarters of First Glasgow at its new £20 million base. The depot houses 300 buses and 800 employees – although it has space for up to 450 vehicles and 1,200 workers. Ms Sturgeon returned to the site almost exactly one year on from putting the first spade in the ground to start building work at the facility which contains a maintenance workshop, a deep-clean service tunnel and a long-term repair unit.

10 years ago

Tiger Woods, pictured, has said he is to take an “indefinite break” from professional golf, acknowledging the disappointment and hurt his “infidelity” has caused. The numberone golfer, who has been swamped by allegations about his private life, announced he was stepping down from the professional game in a statement posted on his official website. His decision came as his lawyers won a court order banning publication in Britain of any photos or video showing him nude or having sex.

25 years ago

The Master and Marine Superintendent of the Waverley, Captain David Neill, yesterday dismissed speculation that the steamer may finally be up the creek without a paddle. Passers-by have been bemused at the appearance of a massive hole in the old girl’s side at her berth at Anderston Quay. Closer inspection has revealed that the Waverley has indeed taken on a sea view with a major gap in her dining saloon just aft of the port paddle. But it’s part of an extensive upgrading programme.

50 years ago

Food and facilities in many common lodging houses compare unfavourably with prison, and large lodging houses near the centre of cities are grim reminders of the Victorian era, according to a report yesterday. The report, “The Treadmill,” published by Christian Action, is the result of a survey of institutions registered as a common lodging houses under the Public Health Act, 1936. The report says that walking inside a lodging house is sometimes like journeying back to the days of Dickens and Kingsley.

100 years ago

A boy of 12 years named William Wilson Wood appeared yesterday at Paisley Sheriff Court and pleaded guilty to having on September 22 broken into a classroom at Carbrook Street Public School, forced open a lock-fast desk, and taken from it the register, which he tore up and set on fire. It was also alleged that he entered the school on a second occasion, took a portion of the woodwork from a piano, and scattered the keys of the instrument about the floor. Sheriff Blair sentenced Wood to receive six strokes of the birch rod.