100 years ago

AT Hampstead, Percy Prosse, aged 39, was charged with using insulting behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace.

A constable stated that a crowd had broken up a suffragette meeting on the Heath, the suffragettes making their escape.

Two men and a woman who were heard to sympathise with the suffragettes were seized by the crowd, and the prisoner shouted “Duck them.”

He tried to push past the police to get at them. He refused to behave himself, and was taken into custody. A police inspector stated that the crowd smashed the suffragette stand and threw the pieces into a pond.


50 years ago

SIR Alec Douglas Home had said that the modern Commonwealth had a great opportunity to help avert what might be the greatest world problem ahead - the widening gulf between rich and poor nations.

Sir Alec said there was evidence the Soviet Union had at long last decided the world could not be dominated by force.

If that were so, and as the confrontation diminished, “then there is a chance for the rest of the world to come into its own - and the Commonwealth is a very large part of the rest of the world.”


25 years ago

TEST cricketers had been bowled over by two saucy maidens at Headingley.

Willowy teenager Lisa Whatmough, a building society clerk from Sheffield, peeled off to her birthday suit and streaked along the outfield shortly before Australia claimed victory over England in the first Test of the Ashes series.

At the same time, convicted brothel keeper Sheila “Goldie” Ford, aged 32, from Leeds, wearing a sexy basque, suspenders and a “No tax” sign on her sit-upon, staged a protest over a £40,000 tax bill.

Police arrested both females as the smiling Australian team and thousands of spectators looked on.