FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4th - 10th OCTOBER 1971)
This week's stories include the Dubliners dispute with the Theatre Royal, St Helens Council's derelict land reclamation programme, the woman who gave cooking sherry to a 4-year-old in Victoria Park, the Pilkington strike leader prosecuted as a benefit cheat, St Helens-born Stanley Parr is made Chief Constable of Lancashire, the natural gas conversion programme and the planned demolition of the St Helens covered market.