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Orkney Yesterday
09/05/2008 09:53:00
15 years ago
SHETLAND WILDLIFE: Pupils from Stromness Primary School decided to hold a fundraising event in May 1993 to help clean and protect wildlife affected by the Braer tanker disaster in Shetland earlier that year.
09/05/2008 09:51:00
15 years ago
HOSPITALITY COURSE: Students who took part in the Further Education course in catering in 1992/93 posed for a souvenir photo at the end of term.
Orkney Yesterday
09/05/2008 09:50:00
50 years ago
ORKNEY HERALD, TUESDAY MAY 14 1958
Kirkwall's new Provost
Bailie James Scott was unanimously elected Provost of Kirkwall at Friday's statutory meeting of Kirkwall Town Council. Provost Scott, who is Deputy Director of Education for Orkney, has served continuously on the Council since 1945 and has held office as Dean of Guild, Treasurer and Bailie. Latterly he has been convener of the Housing Committee.
Orkney Yesterday
09/05/2008 09:50:00
100 years ago
ORKNEY HERALD, WEDNESDAY MAY 13 1908
Kirkwall Cricket and Athletic Club
Sir Arthur Bignold has shown yet another proof of his interest in cricket by presenting to the above club a handsome challenge shield. With the object of creating greater interest in cricket, the shield will be competed for by elevens chosen from members of the club.
Cardinal's attack on science does nothing for health
09/05/2008 09:49:00
BACK doon Broon gave in to the kirk lobby who went strutting around demanding a 'free' vote on the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill in Parliament. The yows wonder what is really 'free' about a vote that is governed in the conscience of some, by other dictatorial ideas or edicts.
Stories from Stenwick
09/05/2008 09:47:00
All's well that ends well
n continued from last week
"Shae's gyte," cut in Boadicea. "Whit wid I dae yin for?"
Are you being heard? by Rosalind Spence
09/05/2008 09:31:00
Law to help those at risk of neglect
NEW legislation that is designed to protect adults who are at risk of neglect and abuse will come into force later this year. The legislation is called the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 and although it allows officials to intervene in the lives of individuals, there are safeguards that respect the rights of people to decline any intervention, except in more serious cases or where it is felt someone is applying pressure on the person to force them to decline help.
09/05/2008 09:30:00
And the capital of Venezuela is …
There was a time when the need to prove your superior wit, wisdom and all round topdogishness against all comers was the preserve of the young and foolish. Nowadays, while the young and foolish are still at it and probably will be until all human life expires, the world has changed in one important respect. In 1905 the average life expectancy of a British male was about 47 and 50 for females. Now it's more like 75 for men and 80 for women. So more people are more able for longer and that also means we need an outlet for our competitive urges much later in life.
Tales out of school by Anne Cormack
09/05/2008 09:24:00
The games we used to play
'Oh where are the weans that once played in the street?
Wi' a jorrie, a peerie, a gird wi' a cleat.
Can they still cadge a hudgie, or dreep aff a dyke?
Play hunch cuddy hunch, kick the can and the like.'
THESE words by Adam McNaughton, about Glasgow street games, came back
to me when I read in Orkney Today that Sanday School had been visited
in March by the Active Schools co-ordinator.
Playing EU tag game is no fun for farmers
02/05/2008 13:32:00
IF you are a Muslim the idea of EID will probably give you a warm happy feeling. You will associate EID to anticipation of a celebratory family day, the kids will be expecting lots of presents and cash. There will be days of preparation and a delicious meal to enjoy to welcome the end of Ramadan.
To farmers unlucky enough to live within the jurisdiction of the over-regulatory EU, EID means something different … Electronic Identification. Not of farmers - NorthLink does that - but of their flocks. By the skin of their lugs sheep have just avoided becoming subject to compulsory EID, but only to be hole-punched by another obsessive EU edict.