FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JULY 5, 1945

THE charred body found by the Russians in a concrete bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery was not Hitler’s, a Soviet staff officer told me today as he showed me round this fantastic structure. ‘It was a double, and a rather poor one at that,’ he said.

JULY 5, 1966

A Breeze block and a bottle of stout were flung into Ulster history today because, though the bottle missed, the block hit the bonnet of the Queen’s car, a glass-topped Rolls-Royce. The Queen was unhurt and, inspecting the dent in the bonnet, said: ‘It’s a strong car.’ [The 17-year-old apprentice who threw the block was charged under the 1847 Treason Act and jailed for four years.]