FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (28 AUGUST - 3 SEPT 1973)
This week's 14 stories include the proliferation of hoax telephone calls in St Helens, the cheeky burglar in Sutton Leach who entered 6 homes in one street, Kwik Save opens its new supermarket in Boundary Road, the changes planned to the St Helens postal service, a trolleybus restoration, a new sports hall for Rainford High and the Gladstone Street couple that proved the doubters wrong after 50 years of marriage.