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Monday 22 April 1963
Seven thousand Britons will quit these shores permanently next month and sail on five ships to Australia. “Most of them decided to migrate during the Big Freeze,” an Australia House official said yesterday. “This is the largest number of migrants to sail for Australian ports in any one month this year.”
A boom in Britain’s birth rate, expected to soar to 900,000 a year in England and Wales soon, is spotlighting a big problem - a shortage of midwives. New midwives will be required to man the 6,500 extra beds planned for maternity hospitals in England and Wales by 1975.
The surest way to get yourself talked about as a hostess this summer is to place a bent cucumber on the dining table. The Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board have banned the sale of bent and crooked cucumbers, so you will have to grow your own.
The newest fashion shade in nylons is a very pale cream, which tends to make legs look like quart bottles of milk. Maybe that’s why shops are reporting that women are sticking to the darker shades.
Football: Division One Results - Everton 1 Tottenham Hotspur 0. Leicester City 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Top three - Everton played 37 points 52. Leicester City 38 - 52. Tottenham Hotspur 37 - 50.
Television highlights: Panorama - the World Fair in New York. All Our Yesterdays - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, plus Don Bradman’s Australian cricketers. Cristobal and Company - film serial from France.
Radio highlights: World Top Pops. Music for Dancing.
Weather: Sunny, warm, rain later. Outlook - rain, sunny spells. 16c, 61f.
@HannahHowe That would make an--interesting topic. 
@HannahHowe oh the irony. Remember the brexiters banging on about how the EU were going to ban bent bananananas?
@HannahHowe “1975” Shoom mistake shurely!