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Tuesday 9 April 1963
New European space projects include a space post office system for phone calls, cable and TV employing twelve satellites, which would orbit 7,500 miles above the Earth, starting in 1968, plus a two-satellite system serving the Commonwealth and Europe, and a rocket-ferry system to be used to build orbiting stations in space.
The first automatic Tube train went into service on London’s District Line yesterday. The driver switched over to automatic control at Stamford Brook Station and the train ran to the next station, Ravenscourt Park. Then the driver took over again.
Out of the first 5,000,000 vehicles officially tested for road-worthiness, more than a million and a half failed to pass a straightforward mechanical check. There are fears that this problem could get worse as more vehicles take to the roads due to Dr Beeching’s cut in rail services.
The Faroe Islands are to enforce a twelve-mile fishing limit next year. This will end a concession under which British trawlermen have been able to fish within six miles of the Faroes.
Football League, Division One. Top three: Tottenham Hotspur played 32, points 47. Leicester City played 33, points 47. Everton played 32, points 44. FA Cup Sixth Round, second replay: Nottingham Forest 0 Southampton 5.
Portsmouth beat St Mirren 2 - 0 at Fratton Park last night. However, they lost two footballs that landed on the roof.
Television highlights: The Apple Tree with the Golden Fruit - Hungarian film. Programme For Deaf Children. The Story of a Test Pilot.
Radio highlights: Bidin’ My Time. Unmarried Mothers.
Weather: cloudy but dry. Outlook - dry. 13c, 55f.
@HannahHowe I’d have thought the Unmarried Mothers were very much not Bidin’ My Time ?
@HannahHowe Back in the days when Spurs actually WON things!
@HannahHowe 5-0 to Saints.
Truly a different age. 