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BELOW: Mr. Paul Hamlyn, 35-year-old managing director of the "Books for Pleasure" publishing group of Greenford, Middlesex, who sacked the 12 white workers.
Associated Newspapers
Twenty people were killed when a Royal Air Force Beverley transport plane crashed into a cluster of cottages beside a farm in Drayton, near Abingdon. The plane burst into flames and set fire to the homes. Seventeen of the dead were passengers and ...
Mirrorpic
A test [...] and his assistant were killed when a twin-engined Varsity plane crashed on to a house in Gloucester recently. Three women in the house escaped, as did nearly 1,000 children in the nearby schools as the plane skimmed over the roof of t...
Planet News Ltd.
The jagged ends of the tail-piece and the twisted propeller mark the spot where a luxury Solent flying boat owned by Aquila Airlines crashed, last night, in mist, killing the crew of 8 and 35 passengers; while 15 seriously injured were taken to ho...
United Press Photos
Firemen examining the crumpled nose of a Trans-Canada Airways jet-airliner after a plane had ploughed into a muddy cabage field when it overshot the runway while taking off in thick fog from London airport recently. The 90 passengers and crew of s...
United Press Photos
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit. All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
Daily Mirror
Plane Crashed in North West London
A small two-seater Auster aircraft that was being flown by two Australian dentists crashed on top of a four-storey block of flats in Willesden, North West London, recently killing both of them. The pilot was 30-year-old Robert Campbell, father of ...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Rev. Ross Hook in His Rectory Garden
A Chelsea parson has bluntly turned down on an offer by property men to buy his back garden for £450,000. The Rev. Ross Hook the quiet spoken rector of St. Luke's Chelsea, told them: "There are some thing in life that money can't buy." The freehol...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Richard Beach Sculpts Major Gagarin
A clay head of Major Gagarin — the world's first man-in-space, has been modelled by Sculptor Richard Beach who lives in Wakefield, Yorks. It is being produced for waxworks heads — by Jean Roger of West London. Mr. Beach used photographs and newspa...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Robin Langley — Winner of the Sedgeley Handicap at the Manchester Races
Twelve-year-old Robin Langley, a farmer's son, won the Sedgeley Handicap at 100—7 on "Arts Degree"—at the Manchester Races, thus beating Lester Piggott's "youngest winner" record by five months. Here Robin has a cup of tea after his great victory ...
Morning Times