THE controversial sex film 'Last Tango in Paris' was given the go-ahead for a London showing today, when Greater London Council refused to ban it. But the council decided to call for a national inquiry into censorship. The council said that if control was desirable, then a more appropriate executive body than the local authority should be formed.

A COPENHAGEN policeman stopped a motorcyclist, asked him if he would ride on his back seat to speed up a hunt for a drunken man on a motor-bike, and rode with him for half an hour before he found out he was riding with the man he was hunting.

In court yesterday the drunkard was freed by the judge, although a medical examination proved he was very drunk. His policeman passenger testified that he drove carefully and skilfully.

WILLIAM May, a wealthy farmer in North Cornwall, was recently summoned by the Poor Law Guardians to support his aged mother, an inmate of the workhouse. The hard-hearted fellow pleaded his own illegitimacy, and putting his widowed mother in the witness box, made her publicly confess that he was born before she married his father. The magistrates on this ground were obliged to dismiss the summons, and during the examination he was asked whether, when he inherited his uncle's property, he paid legacy duty as his nephew, but refused to answer. Mr Morrison, MP, reading the report of the case, put the Treasury on the scent, and they have surcharged May on the difference between the three per cent he paid as nephew and the ten per cent due as stranger, with interest since 1856, the total sum being sufficient to have purchased the mother a comfortable annuity for life.

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