Daily Mirror dated Friday 4th July 1969
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Brian Jones was a founding member of the Rolling Stones, but by July 1969 had left the group to follow his own musical ideas. He was living at Cotchford Farm in East Sussex, formerly the home of author A. A. Milne. In the early hours of the 3rd of July Jones was found dead in his swimming pool. The coroner's report stated "death by misadventure", but over the years various theories have surfaced, including murder by builder Frank Thorogood.
In 2009 journalist Scott Jones managed to get the case of Jones’ death re-opened but the original verdict was upheld.
See this 2008 Daily Mail online archive article by Scott Jones
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Looks like the Employers and the Unions were limbering up ready for the Industrial chaos that was the 1970’s.
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They blamed the warm summer evenings for their loss. Does the good weather only occur where there are BBC viewers and not where there are ITV viewers? Or are BBC viewers more partial to outdoor pursuits? Do they own more garden Jacuzzis? Or could it be that the ITV programmes are so much better that they hold their audience even on warm summer evenings?
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In 1966 Irishman Sean Bourke helped Michael Randle and Pat Pottle to arrange the prison escape of the Soviet spy George Blake. He then joined Blake in Moscow before travelling back to Ireland. The British Government tried to get him extradited but the Irish court said that the escape was a political act and refused.
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Tricia Nixon married Edward Finch Cox, a Harvard Law student, at the White House in 1971. Charles married someone else.
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Radio licenses for home receivers date beck to 1922 but separate Car Radio licenses were introduced in 1938. From 1946 you didn’t need a home Radio License if you had a TV License, but you did need a Car Radio License up until 1971. Just thought you’d like to know.
This is the same John Stonehouse that faked his suicide in 1974 by leaving a pile of clothes on a beach in Miami. He was presumed dead, but in reality, was on his way to Australia to set up a new life with his mistress. He was arrested on Christmas Eve 1974 in Copenhagen and deported back to Britain where he stood trial on charges of fraud. He was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison.
Earlier in 1969 he had been accused of being a Czech spy, which he successfully denied. Although it was later revealed that in 1980 Margaret Thatcher knew Stonehouse had been a spy since the 1960’s.
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A unusual take on the scaling down of the US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Cartoonist Reg Smythe created Andy Capp in 1957 and it has been running ever since. The strip has been accused of perpetuating the Northerner stereotype, but Smythe, from Hartlepool himself, loved his jobless, lay-about, hard-drinking, gambling, lazy ‘hero’.
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200 – 250 guns for only £250! That can’t be right. He’d have got more on E-bay. Unless it means £250 per gun, in which case whoever wrote this article should have learnt to rite proper.
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Well, doesn’t he look manly? You had to be tough to smoke Weights. They didn’t call them ‘coffin nails’ for nothing.
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