Duffel bag clue in hunt for doctor’s murderer

POLICE were left baffled as they hunted in Edinburgh and Aberdeen for the murderer of Dr Brenda Page.

They were searching for a dark green canvas duffel bag which was thought to contain the murder weapon.

Dr Page was murdered in her Aberdeen tenement the previous week. She had been bludgeoned to death in her bedroom.

Since her death, it was revealed Dr Page had worked for an Edinburgh escort agency.

Her killer has never been found.

Almost 1,000 holidaymakers slept on the floor at Glasgow Airport because of industrial action by French air traffic controllers.

Passengers who travelled from Aberdeen and Dundee spent more than 24 hours in the terminal.

It was the same at all of Britain’s airports as the strike hit flights across Europe.

An Edinburgh family were terrorised by a swarm of bees which attacked them in their home.

Mr and Mrs Maxwell Davidson and their 20-year-old daughter were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Mr Davidson was stung around 40 times.

The bees were thought to have come from a hive belonging to a neighbour.

A hotline was set up by detectives hunting a knifeman responsible for a spate of knife assaults on women. The fair-haired youth was linked to three incidents in Clackmannanshire.

Three women had been attacked over a three month period in 1978.

Britain’s nuclear fleet was left high and dry thanks to a strike,

Civilian contractors walked out of their jobs over a pay dispute, leaving only one nuclear submarine, HMS Resolution, active.

Workers were refusing to handle the top secret missile stores until the dispuite was resolved.

A seven-year-old girl was shot during a gun battle between police and terrorists in Belfast.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary said they were fired on as they exited a vehicle in the Ardoyne area.

“We cannot say which side the bullet which hit the girl came from,” a spokesman said.