Newspapers

Topics discussed include: an article in the Scotsman and Switchboard's response; the Social Work Department grant; the treasurer's report and auditing annual accounts; advertising; training; weekend duties; Friends of Gay Switchboard (FROGS); request for leave of absence from member; social events; and an update on calls and meetings.

Topics discussed include: the community service announcement; an update on training; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) annual general meeting (AGM); the Stonewall Youth Group; an update on Scottish AIDS Monitor's (SAM) move to new premises; statistics, St. Andrew's Nightline; an article about elderly gay people for publication in the Scotsman; and a complaint about the way EGS has been mentioned in the Young Scot Magazine.

Topics discussed include: applications to the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian Councils; policing at Gayfield Square and an Edinburgh Evening News article on 'alleged rent boy activity in Regent Terrace'; Company Status and a list of directors; finances and accounts; statistics; membership matters; training report; a report on a recent ceilidh; conference report; missing money from the phone room; and a discussion of call cards.

Topics covered include: membership updates; advertisements in the Evening News; a befriending pamphlet; and notice of the first meeting of the National Working Party on befriending.

Also included is draft text for the proposed Befriending Service pamphlet.

Newspaper cuttings relating to various subjects including: Scottish place names, clan history, topography, the Inneses of Caithness and pipe tunes. The cuttings were taken from the following publications, Oban Times, Glasgow Herald, Peoples Journal, Northern Chronicle, Perthshire Advertiser, Northern Ensign and the Highland News.

The cuttings are contained in three envelopes, addressed to the Rev Charles M. Robertson, Jura, Islay and Ullapool.

The matrerial consists of newspaper cuttings, etc. on Chemical and Biological Weapons, dated 1969-1971. It includes photocopies of press articles.

Newspapers covering John Baillie's report to the General Assembly:

Includes copies of The Scotsman, The Dundee Advertiser, The Daily Free Press (Aberdeen), Banffshire Journal, The Scottish Banking and Insurance Magazine, The Northern Whig (Belfast), The Glasgow Herald, The Daily Review, London Figaro, and Inverness Courier.