100 years ago

SIR Robert Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, had visited Leeds and there had been a signal demonstration in his honour.

His object was to advance the scheme for raising a Boy Scout Endowment Fund for a quarter of a million pounds, towards which a considerable sum had already been subscribed. The Chief Scout had been entertained by the Lord Mayor to luncheon at the Town Hall.


50 years ago

AN Aberdeen butcher’s shop had been closed and all meat seized, after a partner in the firm was found to be a typhoid suspect, disclosed Public Health Officials. Another partner said sanitary inspectors had instructed him to close immediately.

Meat worth several hundred pounds had been wrapped up in sacks ready to be destroyed. The shop, which had been disinfected, was closed and assistants were busy clearing up.

Dr Ian MacQueen, Aberdeen’s Medical Officer of Health, said: “What we did was to seize everything in the shop because there was a possibility that if he was a case he might have contaminated it.”


25 years ago

MOVES towards protecting northern beauty spots from damage through too many visitors had won support from Richmond’s Tory MP, William Hague.

He was anxious to save North Yorkshire from the plight of the Lake District, where certain scenic parts had suffered from too much tourism.

“Apparently there are some sites in North Yorkshire, in both the moors and the Dales, where consideration is being given to more controlled access,” said Mr Hague.

That did not mean depriving anyone of access, he stressed, but to make it slightly more difficult to reach them, perhaps through park-and-ride.

“I think that is what must be done. These places must not become over-used,” he said.