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Heathrow was thrown in to chaos before and after the 747 Jumbo Jet landed as facilities couldn't cope. Lots of luggage went astray.
The flight from New York had been delayed by three hours because one of the aircraft's engines had to be changed before it could take off from The Big Apple for its journey across the Atlantic.

But there was further trouble for the Jumbo – the plane's onward journey to Frankfurt was cancelled because of bad weather.

THE HEADLINES..

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Some immigrants lived in fear they might be evicted and sent back to their own countries against their will, a leading Pakistani community leader told a conference at Leeds University. Mr MM Hussain, of the Pakistan Progressive People's League, said immigrants weren't going to give up their customs because that was asking them to become assimilated not integrated.

A 22-year-old prisoner serving 21 months for burglary and a breach of a conditional discharge escaped from Armley Jail by using a step ladder he found in the laundry to scale the walls at their lowest point by the prison hospital.

Ian Brady, the Moors murdered, continued his hunger strike in the top security Durham Prison. He was fed liquids daily by tube.

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Labour MP William Owen (Morpeth) was remanded in custody when he appeared at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged under the Official Secrets Act of passing on information over an eight year period between 1961 and 1969 to Czech intelligence which was prejudicial to the safety and interests of the State. He was later acquitted of espionage when it was accepted what he passed on wasn't secret.
A torchlight procession to Whitehall became violent when 2,000 marchers were turned away from Downing Street where they'd wanted to deliver a petition condemning Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to America because of the US involvement in the Vietnam war.

The Government looked at setting up a super-city embracing a great part of the West Riding with a super council ruling over towns and cities like Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Dewsbury that could stretch beyond Halifax and up top the eastern slopes of The Pennines. Leeds was favourite to be the admin centre of such a metropolis.
Home Secretary James Callaghan got a rough handling by angry farmers at Cardigan when about 200 of them with two bulls blocked the entrance to the Angel Hotel and police failed to clear a path from him.

They were protesting about the parlous state of the farming industry which, they claimed, was dying under Labour.

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Millionaire Leeds businessman and Leeds United Director Manny Cussins had to have an emergency operation in South Africa after being taken ill while on a "get away from it all winter cruise. Ten days after he surgery, Mr Cussins – the 64-year-old chairman and managing director of John Peters Furnishing stores – was reported to be walking around the hospital grounds.

His son and daughter were with him.
A move to stop South Africans playing in Yorkshire was outvoted at the annual meeting of Yorkshire County Cricket Club held in Sheffield by 69 votes to 42. County chairman Sir William Worsley said no decision could be taken until the Test and County Cricket Board met on February 12 to discuss the proposed South African tour.

Sportsmen and women featured in the New Year Honour's List. There were OBEs for Leeds United manager Don Revie and Tony Jacklin, the first Briton in 18 years to win the British Open Golf Championship while Lady Masham was awarded a life peerage in her own right for her work with the handicapped. She had to use a wheelchair after a riding accident.

It was Lucky 13 for Linton racehorse trainer Deryck Bastiman and Wetherby owner Jack Kenyon when Deodante won a Catterick Bridge at the staggering odds of 83-1. Deodante was number 13 on the racecard and Mr Bastiman's club entrance ticket was No 13!

MONEY AND BUSINESS.

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Whitehall officials described as "absolute rubbish" reports that the switchover to decimal currency fixed for February 15, 1971, would be postponed but members of Harold Wilson's Cabinet recognised decimalisation was unpopular and the Tories had a big lead in the opinion polls which could force Labour to put the election back to spring, 1971.

Small shopkeepers in the north called for the scrapping of the 50-piece coin and said it should be replaced by either a larger coin or a banknote.
Leaders of Britain's 98,000 busmen demanded a guaranteed £20-a-week minimum basic wage which represented more than a 30 per cent increase for some of them.
It was claimed Britain's shopkeepers "lose" about £300m worth of stock annually – half of it being put down to staff dishonesty.

SHOWBIZ AND ENTERTAINMENT...

John Lennon's exhibition of lithographs at a New Bond Street gallery was shut down by police following a raid by six plain clothes detectives who removed eight lithographs of Lennon and his wife Yoko One which showed various stages of their relationship including their sex life. Gallery owner, American Eugene Schuster, refused police requests to name members of the public who had bought prints for £40 each or paid £550 for a set of 14.
The rock group the Rolling Stones denied either as a group, or as individual musicians, they were involved in a law suit in America over a free rock festival that failed to be staged at Sears Point in San Francisco.

IN MEMORIUM...

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Lady Kenyon of Hall Cliffe House gave an altar missal stand to Horbury Parish Church in memory of her late mother, Mrs AM Richmond.
The Hong Kong A2 influenza virus killed 2,850 people in Britain in one week – the highest weekly figure since 1933.