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5 YEARS AGO

Eating blueberries, grapes, apples and pears cuts the risk of type 2 diabetes but drinking fruit juice can raise it, a study has found. Experts including a team at Harvard School of Public Health in the US examined if certain fruits impact on type 2 which affects more than 210,000 Scots. People who ate three standard servings a week of blueberries had a 26% lower chance of developing the disease, they found. Those eating grapes and raisins had a 12% reduced risk but drinking fruit juice increased the risk by 8%.

10 YEARS AGO

Thousands of travellers were facing up to losing airfares amounting to millions after the collapse of Scottish-owned airline Zoom. As many as one in five of the 40,000 people holding now useless bookings with the low-cost carrier will have to fight with other creditors to money back. Most customers who paid for their flights by debit card or cheque were yesterday told they were not entitled to refunds. Zoom, owned by Lanarkshire travel entrepreneurs John and Hugh Boyle, suspended operations after soaring fuel costs crippled its finances

25 YEARS AGO

The Timex factory in Dundee closed its doors for the last time yesterday after the company brought forward the planned shutdown, catching union officials unawares. As sacked workers set off to picket the Timex factory in France, a weekend shift of Timex workers was clearing out the factory. The plant was the scene earlier this year of picket-line violence. Timex had predicted the closure of the plant by Christmas but had steadily reduced the number of employees. A spokesman said: “The corporation deeply regrets ending its presence in Dundee after 47 years.”

50 YEARS AGO

Vice-president Hubert Humphrey overwhelmingly won the Democrats’ Presidential nomination last night but the convention, and the Democratic Party itself, were wounded beyond recognition by the spectacle, seen by stupefied millions, of a Chicago police force gone berserk in front of the biggest hotel in the world.

Around the Hilton Hotel they began by clubbing peace demonstrators and ended by roaming the hotel lobby like SS men and roughing up guests and families. Senator Eugene Mccarthy opened his headquarters in the hotel as a hospital.

100 YEARS AGO

The promoters of the British Industries Fair in the Kelvin Hall, pictured, have reason to be gratified at the interest shown in the exhibition by traders, merchants, and the public. That the stallholders are also well pleased may be inferred from the fact they have arranged to hold a meeting tonight for the purpose of forming an exhibitors’ association. It will be proposed that an advisory committee be appointed to assist the management in connection with future Fairs. Musical programmes contributed during the evenings this week have been much appreciated.