Application ‘pitched’ for first 4G football park in the Outer Hebrides
From our archives 5 years ago
A PLANNING application has been submitted for the development of the firstever “4G” football pitch in the Outer Hebrides. The £1.2 million project is being brought forward by South Uist’s Eochar Community Association, which has already been crucial in developing a range of facilities at the local school. The process is at an early stage and it is hoped a funding application will be submitted to Sport Scotland in the coming months. It is expected that Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) will grant planning consent. Association honorary secretary Dr Kate Dawson said: “Our first steps have been to clear drainage and fence the old pitch site.”
10 years ago
ONE of Scotland’s leading theatres is to be taken over by St Andrews University.
However, Creative Scotland, said it will be seeking talks to ensure that the Byre Theatre in St Andrews remains a “public arts facility”. A meeting of the executive committee of Fife Council, which owns the building, agreed that St Andrews University should be the preferred bidder to lease and run the Byre Theatre. The university has proposed a lengthy lease on the building, which would be used by the university during the day for teaching and in the evenings and weekends as an “arts centre for students and community-led music and drama”.
25 years ago
A GROUP of scientists who went fishing for bacteria in the South Atlantic are celebrating a record catch. The “whopper” – three-quarters of a millimetre across – is the world’s biggest-known bacterium. It is visible to the naked eye – similar to the full stop at the end of this sentence – but closer inspection reveals an organism similar in appearance to a string of pearls. The bacteria are nearly 100 times larger than the previous record- holder and because of their appearance have been christened Thiomargarita namibiensis, which means Sulphur Pearl of Namibia.
50 years ago
A TOTAL of 137,750 people visited Calderpark Zoo, Glasgow, during 1973 – an increase on the previous year’s attendance of 5000 – according to the annual report of the Zoological Society of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Inflation and value-added tax made the year very difficult for the society. Animal feeding stuffs, restaurant stocks, building materials, heating oil, and electricity costs had risen rapidly. Some feeding-stuffs had risen by almost 40% in two years. The report states: “There is a limit as to how much can be passed on to the public in higher prices, especially for facilities – such as our restaurant – which are not quite the standard we would desire.
100 years ago
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for holding in Glasgow next month a loan exhibition of antique furniture, medieval tapestry, and needlework under the auspices of Provand’s Lordship Club. In this exhibition, to be held in the Mclellan Galleries, there will be shown some of the finest productions of the period extending from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and will include Stewart, Queen Anne, and Georgian needlework, several noted French and Flemish tapestries, some of which are over 300 years old, ancient metal work, and many other articles. Mr William Burrell and Mr John A Holms have generously given exhibits from their collections.