Secure Trust Bank PLC on Thursday said Chair Michael Forsyth plans to step down at the company s annual general meeting in 2024.
When Forsyth steps down, he would have spent ten years on the board of. | March 30, 2023
Secure Trust Bank PLC on Thursday cut its full-year payout, as impairment charges surged.
The company also said Chair Michael Forsyth plans to step down at the company s annual general meeting in. | March 30, 2023
On Christmas Day in 1950, the Stone of Scone was taken by four young Scottish nationalists, who broke into Westminster Abbey by a side door. Above: The stone being recovered in 1951.
It is sobering to think that, within living memory, the cost of a day’s red deer stalking in Scotland could be largely offset by selling the carcass. In real terms, the cost of the sport was much the same as today – perhaps even slightly higher. The big change has been the dramatic plunge in the value of the meat. I base this observation on the figures detailed in a book called Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands 1940-1990, by Michael Forsyth-Grant. As far as I can work out, the inflation-adjusted value of venison seems to have declined by something like 90% since those days. Yet modern training and meat hygiene regulations mean that today’s wild venison almost certainly reaches the human food chain in better condition than used to be the case. What’s going on? Rationing Food rationing continued for years after the end of World War II. Meat was the last item to come off rationing, in 1954. Today, meat from all sources is ridiculously cheap by historical standards. We have n