25 YEARS AGO

IT'S enough to make any self-respecting Scoutmaster hop right back into his shorts. For the news is out at last. Nothing turns on the ladies on more than the sight of a furry male leg; just a glimpse of a hairy calf sends them all a quiver. This amazing news has been revealed during a radio phone-in, when the lines were jammed for more than an hour as women rang in to reveal secrets of their love life. Answers ranged from electric shocks to Mick Jagger's hips, but way out front was the fuzzy male shin.

50 YEARS AGO

NUDISM IN BRITAIN

The facts. Do you know that there are now more nudists in Britain than in any other country in the world - some 50,000 in all?

Do you know that there are camps and hotels where even the waitresses are completely naked, and to which men, women and children are admitted without formality and for a few shillings.

Do you know why the nudist cult had grown so rapidly? . . . Is it beneficial to health?. . .Is it immoral or harmful to character? . . .These and many more questions are answered by an investigator who has recently conducted an inquiry into Britain's nudist camps. His unbiased report is the basis of a series of frank articles which begin next Sunday in the

SUNDAY DISPATCH

125 YEARS AGO

THE following letter appears in the Manchester Guardian:- Sir, On Thursday last I went to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Station at Bolton to go by train to Liverpool by the train timed to leave at 4.50pm. About 30 minutes after the time we ought to have started, a luggage train, consisting of two or three full wagons and a very large number of empty wagons, which was waiting on the middle line of rails, was sent on towards Liverpool. A few minutes after the Southport express was dispatched on the same line of rails as far as Wigan. At 5.30 we were also sent off. Before we got to Westhoughton we pulled up at the rear of the Southport express which had stopped to allow the luggage train to shunt on to the other line. We went on pretty well to Rainford Junction, where we were shunted again to allow the train timed to leave Bolton at 5.25 - and which we had left on a siding at Bolton - to pass us. Finally we arrived at Liverpool 50 minutes behind time. Some terrible accident will be the result of such gross mismanagement. Yours, Fearful.

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