Bid to master pulling pints on votes trail
5 years ago
NICOLA Sturgeon was pulling pints but not punches as the SNP’S General Election campaign got under way. First stop on the trail yesterday was the Inveralmond Brewery in Perth with local SNP MP Pete Wishart, where she practised the art of drawing a pint. The First Minister also took the opportunity to warn Scottish voters they face a “straightforward choice” between her party or Conservative MPS, who she said will “rubber-stamp” the Prime Minister’s hard Brexit and austerity policies. The SNP also predicted that Theresa May would win the election and the SNP would “stand up for Scotland” at Westminster while the Tories would follow the Prime Minister.
10 years ago
THE last letter from the “lost love” of Robert Burns is to be placed in his official museum tomorrow. The letter, marking the final chapter of the doomed romance between Burns and Agnes Mclehose, will join the collections of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway. The National Trust for Scotland’s museum is home to more than 5,000 Burns-related artefacts, including personal objects, manuscripts and first editions. It is from Agnes Mclehose to John Syme, a friend of Burns. Sent in 1796, it asks for the return of letters Agnes – often known as Clarinda – sent to Burns during their romantic correspondence which lasted for seven years.
25 years ago
A TEENAGER was yesterday celebrating after her design was chosen from thousands of entries to be the official logo for the 1997 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Hanne Barr, 17, until recently a pupil at Boclair Academy, Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, scooped top prize in the contest with a collage depicting three performing harlequins. Her win scooped a £750 prize for her school and a £250 award for herself from the contest sponsors, the Fringe programme printers Macdonald Lindsay Pindar. The picture will appear on the 1997 Fringe programme and on posters and merchandise promoting this year’s Fringe. Hanne said the work had been inspired by a school visit to Edinburgh last summer.
50 years ago
SHOP stewards at the Clydebank plant of the Singer Manufacturing Company, Ltd., were last night accused of precipitating an unnecessary confrontation after they submitted notice of a strike, due to begin at the end of the week. The management announced after day-long talks at the plant, aimed at finding a solution to the threatened strike by the 5,000 workers at the factory:“we have a failure to agree.” An official said the union side had demanded a five-hour reduction in the 40-hour week as a perquisite to progress in the negotiations.
100 years ago
THE question of the retention or removal of the electrical standards in Great Western Road, Glasgow, may be reopened as a result of recent developments. A fortnight ago the Corporation decided to transfer the poles from the centre to the sides of the thoroughfare. Plans for effecting this change were nearly completed when, in order to preserve the present arrangements, several property owners in the neighbourhood freely offered strips of ground for the widening of the road.
It is understood that efforts will be made to arrange a meeting between the proprietors and the Corporation before the removal of the standards has been commenced.