From the Evening News,
February 21, 1972
PRESIDENT Nixon today met Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of China. The Communists gave the first US President to visit China while in office a correctly formal and friendly but low-key welcome. This was in keeping with Mr Nixon's status as the head of a foreign power which does not recognise Communist China, has no diplomatic relations with it, and, until Mr Nixon's sudden about-face last summer, was once of its most implacable foes.
From the Evening News,
February 21, 1947 Z
SNOW fell over the whole of Britain during the night - heavily in some areas. Along the east coast, ice floes continued to menace shipping. Four have so far been reported, the largest four miles long by half a mile wide, off Lowestoft. Crews of trawlers returning to Great Yarmouth say conditions at sea are worse than ever. The cold is intense and skippers are keeping their men on deck only an hour at a time.
From the Evening News,
February 21, 1872
PATRICK Kelly, a strong, able-bodied man, and his wife, Ann Kelly, were yesterday brought before Blackburn Borough magistrates on a charge of neglecting to provide sufficient food and clothing for their five children, aged respectively 12, 11, 8, 5 and 1 years. Chief Constable Potts said the prisoners lived in a house consisting of two rooms only, one above and one below. The male prisoner would not work; and both prisoners had refused to go either to the workhouse themselves, or let their children go. On visiting the prisoners' house on Wednesday night, he found all the children lying on the floor without clothing. He gave them some food and provided them with straw, and subsequently they were removed to the workhouse. The wretched condition of the children was pointed out to the prisoners, who replied: 'They have got used to it'. Mr Johnson, the presiding magistrate, in sentencing the prisoners to six months' imprisonment, regretted that the bench could not double the term and order the lash to be applied, for the prisoners had shown by their conduct in the dock that they were destitute of feeling.
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