60 YEARS AGO

WORKMEN INJURED: Two workmen were seriously injured on Wednesday when the gable end of a partly erected house at Burnfoot was blown down in a gale. The falling brickwork crashed through a wooden hut when four men were taking their mid-day meal. Two of the men were taken to Peel Hospital with severe back injuries.

MILL ON SHIFTS: To keep up with the export demand part of the power-loom section at Wilson & Glenny Ltd will be working from 6am to 11pm each day. Only latest automatic looms (about 24 in number) are affected.

40 YEARS AGO

STEEL TO PRESS FOR NEW SCHOOL: Not one of the 11 teachers at Wilton Primary School goes home for lunch, yet they have to share a staff room only 12 feet by nine feet and the 'largest' classroom in the building is about 50 per cent smaller than the recommended minimum. These were only two little-known but important facts revealed to Mr David Steel MP, when he visited the school on Monday.

VITAL STATISTICS: There were 25 births in the town last month, 11 of them male. Of the 14 deaths, nine were female, and there were 13 marriages, including one civil ceremony.

20 YEARS AGO

PRINGLE'S £500,000 INVESTMENT: Pringle Knitwear have announced that they are buying a second high-technology intarsia knitting machine for the Glebe factory at a cost of over £500,000. It produces high quality fully fashioned patterned sweaters using sophisticated computer and knitting technology. A Pringle spokesman said it would give them increased capacity and flexibility to meet future market demands.

HOTEL CANOPY PETITION: Hundreds of customers of the Roxburgh Inn, North Bridge Street, formerly the Kings Hotel, have signed a petition supporting retention of an unauthorised door canopy recently erected at the premises. Resident manager, Jim Borthwick, said arrangements were being made to appeal against the removal order, while over 500 customers had already signed a petition in favour of keeping the canopy.

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