It was May 1958 at just the right time when Stanley Baxter and Rikki Fulton took to the stage at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow for The Five Past Eight Show.
THEY are not as good at football as at politics, but these four politicians, along with businessman Tom Farmer, centre, were keeping to one of the golden rules of football ... keeping their eyes on the ball.
The then party leaders, George Robertson, of the Labour Party, Michael Forsyth, of the Scottish Conservatives, Alex Salmond, of the SNP, and Jim Wallace, of the Liberal Democrats, were showing off their keepie uppie skills outside Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen, as part of the launch in May 1996 for the cross-party Scotland Against Drugs campaign.
Scottish Secretary Mr Forsyth promised £1million for the body launched by the Scottish Office in a bid to reduce the number of people taking drugs, using education, care and treatment.
It was a rare time when politicians were united but, like so many political footballs, the kicking began soon after. The following month
Mr Salmond and Mr Forsyth disagreed over priorities for the anti-drugs body.
Almost 10 years after Scotland Against Drugs was launched, the publicly-funded advisory group closed with its main functions transferred to new body, The Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives.
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