Reverend John Hall-Matthews won a competition to guess the weight of choirboy Richard Goatman. The contest was held to raise funds for a choir trip to France as part of the church millennium celebrations. John Hall-Matthews and Richard Goatman are picture

Foreign students from Malaysia had been told to leave their halls of residence and move to the Lomas Street halls over the Easter holidays to make way for delegates attending the Labour Party’s women’s conference. William Wilson and Paddy Bradley are quot