FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (7th - 13th January 1969)
This week's twenty-two stories include the damp state of many St Helens homes, the demise of dawn queuing in the New Year sales, the Plaza Theatre Club is in court, Sidac buy a computer costing £1 million in today's money, a Prescot butcher's assistant is mugged, more car parking places and a Dentons Green man wins the Echo's 'Place the Ball' contest.