Arbroath Herald (Arbroath, Scotland) back issues from January 2008:
MORRISON'S URGES CUSTOMERS TO 'GO GREEN'.
Jan 02, 2008 ... ARBROATH'S Morrison's store has issued a rallying call to customers asking them to 'go green'. Working in partnership with the Salvation Army, they are operating a Christmas card recycling scheme. It is estimated that one billion cards - 17 for every woman, man and ...
PLAN TO ADDRESS LIBRARY ACCESS PROBLEM.
Jan 03, 2008 ... THE PROBLEM of disabled access at Arbroath Public Library looks likely to be addressed. Angus Council has submitted plans, which are recommended for approval subject to conditions being met, to the council's development standards committee on January 8. Currently, ...
ARBROATH WOMAN ACCOSTED.
Jan 03, 2008 ... A 23-YEAR-OLD woman was accosted in Alexandria Place on Tuesday, New Year's Day, at about 6.45 a.m. A dark blue Ford Escort car drew up beside her and she was offered a lift by the front seat passenger. When she said no, there was a struggle from which she broke away ....
60 YEARS WED.
Jan 03, 2008 ... CELEBRATING their diamond wedding anniversary on Thursday were Mr and Mrs Donald Watson, 37 Cliffburn Road, Arbroath. The couple were married by the Rev. Crosby in the Victoria Cafe on December 27, 1947. Born in Blairgowrie, Mr Watson (84) moved to Arbroath as a ...
APPEAL LODGED OVER HOUSING DECISION.
Jan 03, 2008 ... AN APPEAL has been lodged against Angus Council's refusal to grant planning permission for a 121-dwelling development at Cliffburn, Arbroath. Stewart Milne Homes, Aberdeen, were invited by planning committee members to submit an amended proposal, with a less intense ...
CHARITY IS THE WINNER.
Jan 03, 2008 ... Sye's Sharks 3, Hamish's Hasbeens 2 OVER [pounds sterling]400 was raised for the Cafe Project's street football programme at a charity football match at Ogilvy Park on Sunday. A tight contest was expected in this annual game as over the previous three years the ...
LICHTIES OUTPLAYED AT MONTROSE.
Jan 03, 2008 ... ARBROATH made the short journey along the coast to meet county rivals, Montrose FC, full of hope but returned home with their tail between their legs at the wrong end of a 5 - 0 scoreline after a dismal performance. The Gable Endies were streets ahead in a match in which the ...
DISCORD OVER VICTORIA PARK PROMENADE UPGRADE.
Jan 04, 2008 ... LOCAL independent councillor, Bob Spink, is "incandescent with rage" that he was not given the opportunity to debate the proposal to undertake a [pounds sterling]5 million refurbishment of the Victoria Park promenade. He explained: "I am delighted at the inclusion of works to ...
DIAMOND CELEBRATION FOR MR AND MRS DUNCAN.
Jan 04, 2008 ... MR AND MRS James Duncan celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary on Thursday. They were married on December 27, 1947, at the West Port Rooms, Arbroath. Mr Duncan (83), is well known in the town after his many years of driving buses and rubbish trucks. ...
RETIREMENT THE BEST PRESCRIPTION!
Jan 04, 2008 ... ON MONDAY Kevin Curran, Friockheim's pharmacist since 1994, made up his last day's prescriptions before retiring. The business re-opened yesterday as a branch of the Blairgowrie pharmacy chain, Walter Davidson & Sons. Mr Curran is a native of Dunbar, who qualified as a ...
FIRST 'SHOUT' OF 2008.
Jan 04, 2008 ... BOTH Arbroath lifeboats, RNLB 'Inchcape' and 'Duncan Ferguson' were launched just minutes into the New Year to attend an incident at Arbroath cliffs. This was the first call out of 2008 for any of the UK's lifeboat stations and it took place at 50 minutes after midnight. ...
CUP WIN FOR ASC.
Jan 04, 2008 ... Arbroath SC 5, Newburgh 1 ARBROATH Sporting Club cruised in to the last 16 of the Redwood Leisure Cup with a convincing victory over Newburgh. Ryan Owbridge gave the home side the lead after 20 minutes but the visitors showed good determination to level the game just ...
FOTHERINGHAM HAT-TRICK AS VICS BAG SIX.
Jan 04, 2008 ... Arbroath Vics 6, Forfar Albion 0 ARBROATH Vics played their final league match of 2007 at home to Forfar Albion on Saturday. Vics took the game to their opponents from the kick-off and when Terry Masson was hauled down in the sixth minute, Lee Jones sent the free ...
ARBROATH MANAGER PLAGUED BY INCONSISTENCY.
Jan 04, 2008 ... ARBROATH manager, John McGlashan, speaking after Wednesday's match said that everyone was devastated by the result. He said: "We came to Montrose on the back of a great result against East Fife and managed to completely reverse that. You have to take victories and defeats and ...
TRIBUTE TO RETIRING LEGION PRESIDENT.
Jan 05, 2008 ... COLONEL George Mathieson has stood down as president of the Arbroath branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland after 11 years in office and Colonel Ian Ballantyne, the previous chairman, was voted in as his successor. At the recent annual general meeting in the clubrooms, the ...
CALL FOR MORE RECYCLING POINTS.
Jan 07, 2008 ... AN ARBROATH councillor wants the local authority to consider installing small recycling bins in the busiest areas of town. Donald Morrison believes that, if implemented, the new collection points would increase Angus Council's already excellent recycling rate. ...
ARBROATH ROAD DELAY HITTING BUSINESSES CLAIM.
Jan 08, 2008 ... SHOPS and local businesses in the Burnside Drive area could be losing out due to the continued delay in completing the road and crossing improvements. That's the view of Arbroath councillor Donald Morrison, who has criticised Angus Council for the time it is taking to finish the ...
ARBROATH BELL ROCK MODEL UNVEILED.
Jan 08, 2008 ... THE BELL Rock Lighthouse model recently purchased at auction by Angus Council was shown for the first time in the county at Arbroath's Signal Tower Museum on Tuesday. Councillor Jim Millar, convener of Neighbourhood Services, and the council's museums manager, Willie Milne, were ...
ARBROATH COUNCILLORS MEET POLICE CHIEF.
Jan 09, 2008 ... UNDER-AGE drinking was on the agenda when two Arbroath councillors met with the town's police chief Councillors Jim Millar and David Fairweather got together with Inspector Donald Scobie to discuss incidents of under-age drinking and anti-social behaviour in the town. ...
CAR SMASHED UP ON ARBROATH / LUNAN BAY ROAD.
Jan 10, 2008 ... ARBROATH police are carrying out enquiries after a car abandoned with a flat tyre on the unclassified Arbroath to Lunan Bay road, near Anniston Mill, on Sunday was damaged. The owner of the yellow Skoda Octavia had left it with a flat tyre at about 4 p.m. When he returned ...
FUNDING BOOST FOR MUSICAL SOCIETY.
Jan 11, 2008 ... ARBROATH Musical Society started the New Year with a cash boost on Monday when they were presented with a cheque for [pounds sterling]750 by the Amy Barnett Skea Trust. The money, handed over during a break in rehearsal, will be put to great use, helping stage the society's next ...
GALEFORCE WINDS CAUSE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE.
Jan 11, 2008 ... GALES of up to 80 miles per hour hit Arbroath on Wednesday morning, causing problems which ranged from inconvenience to structural damage. Near Gowanbank a tree crashed through the roof of a domestic garage, and there were numerous other reports of fallen branches. ...
NO LIGHT SHED ON MILLGATE PUZZLE.
Jan 11, 2008 ... THE QUESTION of why an expensive make-over of a traffic lights junction has been allowed to proceed, when at the same time Angus Council appears keen to remove lights from that same junction, is still puzzling residents of Millgate. The Burnside Drive roadworks in Arbroath ...
CAFE PROJECT BENEFITS FROM 'AULD CROCKS'.
Jan 11, 2008 ... A RECENT 'auld crocks' charity football match provided a cash injection for the CAFE Project's Street Football Initiative. The game between Hamish's Hasbeens and ...
ASSOCIATION THREATENS TO PULL CHRISTMAS FUNDING.
Jan 11, 2008 ... THE SUB-STANDARD display of Christmas lights in the town has resulted in the Arbroath Business Association threatening to remove their funding in future years. And an e-mail, seen by this newspaper, from Jim Cameron, lighting superintendent, to Councillor David Fairweather, ...
WATER MYSTERY!
Jan 11, 2008 ... FOR SOME months now, water has been gushing from the middle of a path at Carnegie Park in Arbroath. It then flows down the hill to the park gate, and continues over the pavement to the gutter, where it eventually finds a drain to take it away. Users of the park have been puzzled ...
NEWSAGENT RETIRES AFTER 37 YEARS OF EARLY STARTS.
Jan 11, 2008 ... FRIOCKHEIM'S newsagent for the past 37 years, John Killan, retires from business tomorrow (Saturday). The newsagency will be taken over by Mrs Ann Marie Kinnear. John was born in Poole, Dorset, and also lived in Edinburgh as a youngster. His first venture into the ...
WORLDWIDE INTEREST IN MISSING ARBROATH PAINTING.
Jan 11, 2008 ... THE HUNT for a portrait of the Queen Mother by James Quinn, ROI, which has been missing from the Angus Council collection for many years has brought interest from as far afield as Australia, America and the south of England. Arbroath councillor, Jim Millar, launched the search ...
NEW GOALKEEPER AT GAYFIELD.
Jan 11, 2008 ... ARBROATH manager, John McGlashan, made his first signing of the January transfer window on Wednesday night when East Stirlingshire goalkeeper, Darren Hill, put pen to paper for the Gayfield club. Speaking about his new signing, the manager explained: "We have lost a lot of soft ...
MANAGER LOOKING TO GET BACK TO 'WINNING WAYS'.
Jan 11, 2008 ... Tomorrow (Saturday), Arbroath have the chance to gain revenge over Forfar when they travel inland to Station Park. In the last game between the two teams The Loons came from behind on three occasions to run out 4-3 winners at Gayfield. The manager explained: "It's a derby game ...
ROTARIANS DISCOVER DISCOVERY.
Jan 12, 2008 ... A GROUP of Arbroath Rotarians recently had the opportunity to visit RRS Discovery in dry dock in Dundee. The visit was arranged by Harry Simpson, a partner in Mackay's boatyard which is carrying out restoration work on the ship. A tour of the external hull was given by Mr John ...
MR TOM FRASER RETIRES.
Jan 12, 2008 ... A MAN who has spent 40 years working first for Arbroath Town Council and then for its successors, has retired. Mr Tom Fraser, a native of Lanark, came to Arbroath in 1968 when he accepted the post of assistant quantity surveyor in the Town Council. With ...
CONTINUED SUCCESS FOR YOUNG TENNIS STAR.
Jan 12, 2008 ... ARBROATH'S young tennis star, Jonny O' Mara (right) travelled to Florida last month to complete in two prestigious international tournaments. However, the trip got off to a bad start when Jonny twisted his ankle in the lead up to the Prince Cup. He had been due to play both ...
ANGUS BIKE CHAIN MEMBERS COMPETE IN DUATHLON.
Jan 12, 2008 ... THE SECOND round of the Angus Bike Chain and SG Baker Ltd Duathlon Series took place on Sunday at Monikie Country Park. Competitors had to complete a four kilometre run on a figure-of-eight course around Monikie reservoirs, followed by a 20 kilometre cycle through a loop of ...
COUNCIL TAX CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED.
Jan 13, 2008 ... ANGUS Council has launched a campaign urging council tax payers to use direct debit as the easiest and most efficient way to make payments. Convener of corporate services Mark Salmond launched the promotion on Monday. He said: "Direct debit is the easiest and most ...
BUSY YEAR FOR ARBROATH LIFEBOATS.
Jan 13, 2008 ... THE CREWS of Arbroath's two lifeboats, RNLB 'Inchcape' and the inshore boat, RNLB 'Duncan Ferguson', have had a busy year, having recorded 34 launches and carried out 27 rescues along the Angus coast during 2007. On February 1 both vessels were launched to help in a search for a ...
NUMBERS ADD UP FOR NEW STRIPS.
Jan 13, 2008 ... Louise and Robert Sim, representing Murray, Taylor (Scotland) Limited, Chartered Certified Accountants and Auditors, a well-known firm throughout the east of Scotland, recently presented a set of football strips to Arbroath FC at an informal ceremony in the ...
OPPORTUNITY TO STEP INTO THE SPOTLIGHT.
Jan 13, 2008 ... A NEW year presents a new opportunity for the county's sporting stars to step into the spotlight, with Angus Sports Council's annual sports awards ceremony taking place in March. Nomination forms are now available, with athletes, players, coaches, friends and family encouraged ...
NEW OPENING TIMES AT RECYCLING CENTRES.
Jan 15, 2008 ... NEW opening hours come into effect this weekend at recycling centres throughout Angus. Opening times have been adjusted slightly to reflect the most popular use of the sites and to make best use of resources. The weekend opening will be later and centres will close ...
[pounds sterling]200 BIKE STOLEN IN ARBROATH.
Jan 16, 2008 ... A BIKE worth [pounds sterling]200 has been stolen from Arbroath's Charles Avenue. The cycle was taken from a common close in the street sometime between 7 p.m. last Wednesday (January 9) and 12.50 p.m. on ...
MARINE BALLROOM BUILDING TO LIVE AGAIN.
Jan 18, 2008 ... Work has started to refurbish and redevelop Arbroath' Marine Ballroom, in Hill Road. It is being converted into 27 flats in a year-long project that will cost about [pounds sterling]2 million. The building is well known to generations of Arbroathians as a meeting place and dance ...
[pounds sterling]10,000 CASH BOOST FOR CAFE.
Jan 18, 2008 ... THE FUNDS of the CAFE Project in Arbroath were given a huge cash injection on Wednesday. A cheque for [pounds sterling]10,000 was presented to the Brothock Bridge based ...
WELL KNOWN IN MUSICAL CIRCLES.
Jan 18, 2008 ... RUTHERFORD (Ford) Carruthers, a Pitlochry man who was well known in Arbroath musical and theatrical circles in the 1960s, died on Friday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 73. A native of Moulin, he attended school in Pitlochry before completing a radio ...
ANOTHER FULL MAILBAG FOUND IN STREET.
Jan 18, 2008 ... JUST a few weeks ago, the Herald reported that a member of the public had found a full mailbag lying in the middle of a busy street - Millgate Loan, to be precise. Believe it or not, an almost identical incident happened on Thursday, but this time in Lochlands Street, near the ...
SO MUCH SPACE IN REVAMPED WEBSTER.
Jan 18, 2008 ... MUCH HAS been written about the [pounds sterling]4 million renovations to the Webster Memorial Theatre in Arbroath, but few of those words have been penned by anyone who has actually seen the theatre. The Herald stepped off the rumour treadmill on Monday, and was given a guided ...
LINIES 'EYESORE' TO BE BUILT ON.
Jan 18, 2008 ... HILLCREST Housing Association has submitted plans to build two blocks of flats, including temporary accommodation, adjacent to the former Alma Works at 'The Linies' between Catherine Street and Millgate. And Angus councillors were recommended to approve funding totalling ...
CHARITY YOMP TO BE REPEATED.
Jan 18, 2008 ... MEMBERS of the yomp committee met on Wednesday evening to discuss ways of making this year's yomp on March 30 bigger and better than 2007's inaugural, and hugely successful event. Organiser David Fairweather told the Herald that teams from the Newgate Bar, Station Bar, Arbroath ...
HERALD OFFICE ON THE MOVE - JUST A LITTLE WAY.
Jan 18, 2008 ... THE ARBROATH Herald/Guide & Gazette newspapers will have new premises in just over a week's time. We will open at 21 Market Place, opposite Wetherspoons, on Monday, January 28. Ironically, the premises next door, which now house The Courtyard restaurant, were, for ...
PRUDENT MONEY POLICY AT LETHAM PRIMARY.
Jan 18, 2008 ... AN ENTERPRISING initiative has been set up at Letham Primary School that has seen the pupils join forces with the commercial sector to set up their own bank. Last week the children lodged their first deposits into the newly opened accounts as part of the Royal Bank of Scotland's ...
FROSTY FORFAR FRUSTRATES FIXTURE FLOW.
Jan 18, 2008 ... ANOTHER game bit the dust on Saturday when Arbroath's local derby against Forfar was postponed due to a frozen pitch at Station Park. It was the Lichties' third postponement in as many weeks and, while the decision was less controversial than in previous games, it leaves the ...
DEATH OF RETIRED TEACHER.(Obituary)
Jan 19, 2008 ... A FORMER teacher at Arbroath High School, Mr David Norrie, has died in a nursing home in Edzell after a lengthy illness. He was 89 years of age. Although born at Hillhead of Ascurry, Letham, he moved with his family to East Seaton in 1925 following the death of his father. He ...
SPECIAL OLYMPIANS HONOURED.
Jan 19, 2008 ... THE EFFORTS of Angus Special Olympians at last summer's games in Shanghai were applauded by local councillors on Thursday. Angus contributed four athletes to the 159-strong Great Britain team and, between them, they returned home with an impressive medal haul from the event, in ...
TRAINING TOPS FOR VICS.
Jan 19, 2008 ... ARBROATH Vics have received training tops from sponsor, Mackays Boatyard. They were presented at Ogilvy Park on Saturday ...
CONTRACTOR GRILLED ON LIGHTS DELAY.
Jan 20, 2008 ... EVERYONE in Arbroath is delighted that the works associated with upgrading the dual carriageway through the town are now complete. But questions are being asked about why the traffic light contractor, Siemens, took so long to finish their part of the job. However, ...
TORIES' WESTMINSTER CANDIDATE.
Jan 20, 2008 ... THE SCOTTISH Conservative and Unionist Party are preparing the battleground to win the Westminster seat of Angus from the SNP. On Saturday, Angus Conservatives met at Angus College and selected Scots/Italian Alberto Costa (36), originally from Glasgow, as the Prospective ...
GIRLS' CRICKET TEAM GETS IN TRAINING.
Jan 20, 2008 ... ANGUS girl cricketers began their winter training on Sunday in an effort to perfect their skills in preparation for the new season. This year, for the first time in its history, an Angus select all girls' side will compete in the under-13 Duke's Strathmore ...
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED.
Jan 22, 2008 ... ARBROATH councillor Donald Morrison has urged Angus Council to offer assurances that they would make representations to the Scottish Government on the effects of anti-social behaviour in Angus. Mr Morrison made his request to both the convenrr and director of neighbourhood ...
LICHTIES SIGN LOONS' CAPTAIN.
Jan 24, 2008 ... ARBROATH concluded a fine week by securing the signature of Forfar captain Alan Rattray on Wednesday afternoon. It was an added bonus after the Lichties recorded their first home league win since September with a 2-0 victory over Elgin City on Saturday. The ...
YOUNGSTERS' CASH FOR CATS.
Jan 25, 2008 ... Primary five pupils at Inverbrothock Primary School presented a cheque for [pounds sterling]131.30 on Monday to the Cat's Protection League. The children ...
INTERESTING DISCOVERY MADE DURING MOVE.
Jan 25, 2008 ... AN INTERESTING discovery while packing old files for our move to new offices in Market Place has shed further light on the whereabouts of the portrait of the Duchess of York painted by James Quinn, ROI, which is missing from the Angus Council inventory. The matter has been ...
3,000 YOUNGSTERS WILL BENEFIT FROM PROGRAMME.
Jan 25, 2008 ... A NEW series of educational activities and events planned by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in Arbroath will benefit over 3,000 primary and secondary school pupils, college students and members of the wider public. The year-long RSE@Arbroath programme, to be launched at ...
FISHERMAN ESCAPES AFTER VESSEL CAPSIZES.
Jan 25, 2008 ... A LOCAL fisherman had a lucky escape when his boat, Northern Star, sunk within a minute of capsizing on Tuesday afternoon. The incident, at around 1 p.m., happened a third-of-a-mile from the harbour's entrance, just north of the leading light. By sheer coincidence ...
NO SIGN OF WORK ON STORE.
Jan 25, 2008 ... THE APPARENTLY never ending saga of a new supermarket in Arbroath continues with Tesco's admission that construction work will start "as soon as possible" at the former Westburn Foundry site. For many years Arbroath has waited, and waited, for a new supermarket and despite ...
A BRUSH WITH VAN GOGH.
Jan 25, 2008 ... A COLLISTON artist's career is taking off after a brush with one of the art world's most famous names - Van Gogh. George Kennedy has long been an admirer of the 19th-century artist, Vincent Van Gogh, and after meeting his descendant, Jan Van Gogh, George's works are set to be ...
MINSTRELS PREPARE FOR ANNUAL SHOW.
Jan 25, 2008 ... THE ANGUS Minstrels have moved in to their new home for the next two weeks, the newly opened Webster Theatre. And the company is at present rehearsing routines, putting finishing touches to costumes and setting the stage for their first visit to the new theatre. The ...