AN Arbroath lifeboat capsized in a storm-lashed sea flinging six of her crew of seven to their deaths.
Nurses who trained at Blackburn Royal Infirmary were planning an annual get together for the most feminine of reasons - they wanted a good gossip.
And 2,500 drivers went back to work signalling the end of an industrial dispute in which troops had been called in to distribute petrol.
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