IN A week that was dominated by money – for example, York banks were running out of shillings due to the amount that had been put in gas and electricity metres – York City had cause to thank Bobby Cunliffe for salvaging a point at home to Shrewsbury Town.

He only came into the team due to Billy Rudd's illness but scored with a brilliant header five minutes from time to secure a draw.

A letter to the paper complained about Ken Barlow's latest affair potentially spoiling Coronation Street, and a bulldozer driven by Ray Bowsker caused £1,000 worth of unnecessary damage to a Los Angeles house – he should have been knocking down the house next door – but the real demolition came from Henry Cooper's vintage left hook.

Our 'Enery defeated Hubert Hilton in a round and a half at London's Olympia.

The York & District Football League were 145 matches and rising behind schedule due to bad weather, but fourth-from-bottom York Rugby League Club played, although they could only manage an early penalty goal in a 16-2 defeat at Hunslet, who were eight places above them.

Harold Wilson's Government announced big increases in unemployment and sick pay and the 170-year-old Selby Toll Bridge was called a "time-wasting infernal nuisance" in a libel case at London's High Court, while England were on the way to losing the fourth Test in Adelaide after Bobby Simpson (225) and Bill Lawry (119) had put on 244 for Australia's first wicket after the tourists had been dismissed for 241.