... Union had considerable influence, Mr Gavin Astor, chairman of the council of the union, said in Edinburgh on Saturday. . Speaking at a dinner given by Edinburgh Corporation to members of the union, who last week held their quinquennial conference at Gleneafi ...

... legislation were unknown. Mr. Scanlon, who also attacked the Government's *failure” to direct industry to development areas, was speaking on Saturday at the opening of mew union offices in West Regent Street whuig cost more than £300,000 to equip. ...

... there came a harsh whirring, like an old -clock greplring to strike, -followed y - a metallic, half-humansounding -voice, speaking: with a little measured gap between each - word:— RIS *This,” it informed- me, **is an automatic recording machine at so ...

... Government does not give a damn? ” The joint statement was agreed by leaders of the three groups of MPs and they are ‘seeking to speak in today’s debate. The Scots MPs are particularly anxious to highlight Scotland’s grave unemployment situation. By DAVID BRADFORD ...

... of changing from a' community of six to one of ten implies changes in a niumber of things,” he declared. ) : Mr Rippon was speaking after briefing ambassadors from EFTA and Commonwealth countries on the results of yesterday’s negotiations. He said that ...

... by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. s Y “We have done very well,” ke said, “when you consider the mnfl:‘ltude of the problem.” _Speaking in a professional up.ty rather than as chairman the HIDB, he said they had at last shown that the joh was not impossible ...

... A drugs expert -last night called for Olympic-style dope tests for schoolchildren to hela to curb:the drugs problem. | ‘Speaking -at Falkirk where there has been a series of drug cases, Professor A. H.. Beckett, of London University, said: “ We have ...

... and Co-op. Party Committee, tried to put their case against the ;increases to the council, but\were refused permission to speak, Demonstratoers bhooed the Lord Provost and the city treasurer ‘when they arrived at the chambers. ...

... hear the prisoners’ grievances. They had threatened to kill the warders if any attempt was made to reach them and asked to speak to Justice Ministry officials. -The prisoners’ demands have not been disclosed. - The prisoners, who had knocked one warder ...

... reception accorded to their few, wellchosen words. Strangely, the length of the applause increased in relation to the speed of speaking —the faster you spoke, the longer the clapping. Why? It was all a plot by girls helping the verbatim shorthand writers. If ...

... not hear the person at the other end, she said:. . the line was full of noises, never clear, = and she’d ask someone else to speak instead. We knew she felt the thing might trap, expose her somehow: and we knew she ‘wasafraid - of voices, audible, exchanging ...

... trying them on, and certainly not as far as the door. Police were called and explanations asked for. But neither of the players speaks a word of English. . But Mr Tom Hart, the : burgh builder, who owns . controlling interest i : disclosed lgst night that he ...