A NEW British soccer transfer record was set today when Stoke City paid £240,000 for Chelsea's Alan Hudson. This beat the previous record when Derby County paid £225,000 to Leicester for David Nish in October, 1972.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 13, 1949

WOMEN wept and murmured 'Goodbye, Tommy' at the funeral at Golder's Green Crematorium today of Tommy Handley - 'Itma' to millions of his radio show listeners. Thousands of people lined points on the six-mile funeral route. At points en route, where the traffic was stopped and the roar of London traffic stilled, busmen sat in their cabs, caps in hand. As the cortege moved off to the Crematorium, not a man in the crowd of more than 3,000 failed to take off his hat or cap, and many of the women were in tears.

125 YEARS AGO

CHARLES Edward Butt, aged twenty-two, who shot Miss Phillips at Arlingham because she rejected his addresses, and the convicts Bailey and Barry, of Bristol, convicted of poisoning an infant of which Bailey was said to be the father, were executed in Gloucester Gaol on Monday. Anderson, of Liverpool, was the executioner. Butt was exceedingly penitent, and admited the justice of his sentence; Bailey and Barry, who till just recently protested their innocence, also confessed their guilt.

ON Monday night, a most interesting lecture was delivered in the Albert Hall on a Three Days' Tour in the Isle of Man, to a large and fashionable audience.

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