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5 years ago
A former billiard room that was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh may have been a prototype for his masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, it has emerged. Created around 1893 when the architect was just 25, the Mackintosh Club in Helensburgh was a games and committee room for the local Conservative Association. In June, the building’s upper floor was bought by two Scottish architects, Bruce and Nicola Jamieson.
10 years ago
Former chancellor Alistair Darling , pictured, is to lay bare the mistrust at the heart of Gordon Brown’s Government – and brand the ex-prime minister “brutal and volcanic”. The Edinburgh MP is to reveal in a new book how Mr Brown allegedly got Ed Balls and other key allies to run what was effectively a Shadow Treasury team. Mr Darling also refused to take into his Treasury team Labour peer and Brown ally Shriti Vadera.
25 years ago
A row is brewing over claims that Scotland’s smallest mainland council is being turned into a dictatorship. Clackmannanshire Council has been dubbed the “North Korea of Scottish local government” by the SNP after refusing to set up any public committees and scrapping half its full council meetings. The Labourdominated council claims committee meetings are a waste of time because they do not have enough business to fill them.
50 years ago
The Scottish Tourist Board are planning to build five national information centres on motorways linked by teleprinter at a cost of between £20,000 and £30,000 each to help meet the needs of the increasing pattern of motoring holidaymakers. Each centre will have a linguist to deal with overseas visitors and, ideally, they will be able to assist people to make accommodation bookings in the areas to which they are travelling.
100 years ago
Considerable commotion was caused in Glasgow yesterday by an outbreak of fire early in the afternoon in a Clydeside warehouse near the centre of the city. The premises involved were those of Mr James Hunter, cork merchant, 58 Great Clyde Street. Mr Hunter occupies the top floor of a three-storey building overlooking the river and situated midway between Maxwell Street and St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Cathedral.