The Daily Telegraph dated Wednesday October 23rd 1974 (Miniature
Edition)
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I think these miniature editions were printed as souvenirs for visitors, but I stand to be corrected.
This was part of the IRA’s sustained bombing campaign in
England that followed the Bloody Sunday shooting by the British Army of 13
demonstrators in 1972. The campaign lasted though 1973 and 1974. Edward Heath
was the Leader of the Conservative Party at the time of the bombing in Brooks
Club, he had lost the General Election in February 1974 to Harold Wilson.
I can’t help but lose sleep over the use of the apostrophe
in “Brooks’s”.
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John Dean served as the White House Counsel to US President
Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. He became involved in the plot
to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate
office building in Washington and the subsequent cover-up of Nixon’s
involvement. When criminal charges were brought against all the key plotters
Dean became the prosecution’s start witness.
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As Vice President, Gerald Ford automatically became
President of the United States when Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate
scandal and he had become Vice President when Spiro Agnes had resigned over
bribery allegations, so he was never elected. He later pardoned Nixon for his part in Watergate.
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The 29 year-old Palm Beach waiter Michael Wilson moved into
77 year-old millionaires Rachel Fitler’s mansion, but in December 1974 staff
evicted him, against, according to Wilson, Miss Fitler’s wishes. They never
married.
Rachel
Fitler died in 1990.
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Ah! Sun, sea and the Norwalk Virus for only £20 a day!
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The Stone of Scone had been stolen properly back in 1950.
See this post.
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US comedian and King of the Slow Burn, Jack Benny died of
cancer 2 months later on Boxing Day 1974.
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£81million taken and only £17million recovered - and they say
crime doesn’t pay.
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The first Act to cover automatically processed
personal data was the Data Protection Act of 1984 and has been replaced by the
Data Protection Act 1998. How effective the legislation is can be judged by the
number of companies, that you have never dealt with directly, that appear to know
your phone number, e-mail address, age and how many payment protection policies
you have had in the last 10 years.
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Edward Woodward was probably best known on TV as “Callan”
and later as the star of “The Equalizer” and on film as the star of “The Wicker
Man”.
Michele Dotrice, a regular on British TV sine 1961 was, of course,
the ever put upon Betty in “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em”, which starred Michael
Crawford.
Edward and Michelle married in 1987. He died in 2009.
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As mentioned above Edward Heath had lost the 1974 General
Election back in February 1974 so this advert seems a bit on the late side. In
fact the next Conservative to move into number 10 was Margaret Thatcher in
1979.
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Given the involvement of Private Detectives in the hacking
scandals that led to the downfall of the ‘News of the World’ and to the Leveson
Enquiry, the claim that such methods had been ended back in 1974 seems a little
premature.
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I can just imagine that if that had happened today there
would be a YouTube film going viral as we speak.
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