Nail-biting derby could decide the fate of rivals
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5 years ago
IF he wasn’t peppered with grey hair already, this week may well have turned him that way. Motherwell captain Keith Lasley will lead the Fir Park side into a nail-biting derby against Hamilton Acadmical on Saturday, a game that could well be significant in crystallising the fate of one of the two rivals. Locked on 32 points at the bottom end of the table, both sides are not only in an antsy standoff of their own, but one that casts a glance over the shoulder: Inverness Caledonian Thistle might be the classic case of too little, too late in terms of salvaging a play-off spot, but it is not a possibility that can be entirely discounted.
10 years ago
HE became an internet sensation despite doing little more than lazing around in the sun in one of Scotland’s most picturesque seaside towns. But now a ginger tabby has sparked an unseemly cat-fight between an artist and a publisher over just exactly who has the rights to the Tobermory Cat. The feline shot to fame with his own Facebook page after artist Angus Stewart began documenting his comings and goings. However, he is now claiming his idea has been “stolen” by Edinburgh publisher Birlinn, which has produced a book, Tobermory Cat, illustrated by children’s artist Debi Gliori. It claims the timing is coincidental and their book is an original work.
25 years ago
ONCE upon a time there was a play that no-one wanted to see grow up. So sometimes they turned it into a jolly romping musical, and sometimes they did it as a panto. Disney did it as a cartoon, Scottish Ballet as a full-length dance piece, but mostly it came wrapped up in the trappings of a Christmas spectacular for children. Its darker energies were assiduously reined in, least the adult in the audience should take fright, perhaps. But now, thanks to Glasgow-based company TAG, J M Barrie’s Peter Pan may finally come of age. After nigh on a century – maybe it will be recognised for what it is: a truly remarkable classic play by a great Scottish dramatist.
50 years ago
THE extension of television broadcasting hours could result in pressure being put on the length of local Scottish programmes, it was suggested yesterday by a TV executive. Speaking at the annual congress at Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, of the Radio Industries Club of Scotland, Mr Tony Firth, controller of programmes, Scottish Television, Ltd, indicated that the new programmes which would fill the extra hours would create a more rigid network pattern, and this could mean less time available for local broadcasting. He said that the STV at present were producing 11 hours of broadcasting of their own each week.
100 years ago
OWING to the financial loss occasioned the directors of the Glasgow Abstainer’s Union it has been decided to discontinue the Saturday evening concerts in the City Hall, which have held there for more than 80 years. The concerts organised by the Union in St Andrew’s Hall during the past winter proved successful financially as well as artistically, and the directors propose to carry on a modified series of concerts next season. The directors’ report, which was submitted to the 88th annual meeting of the Union yesterday, dealt with the work of the various agencies promoted by the Union.