FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 15, 1946

Princess elizabeth told Land Girls yesterday that Britain still needed them. ‘Yours is no longer war-work,’ she said. ‘it is a great and constructive work of peace.’ Britain had taken on the task of giving aid to starving humanity, particularly europe, where farms had been destroyed. ‘Our own people, too,’ she added, ‘deserve the fruits of their labour in a richer and better diet.’

FEBRUARY 15, 1957

in Alfred Hitchcock films the director (pictured) can always be glimpsed. As a passenger in strangers On A Train, as a clock-repairer in rear Window. in The Wrong Man, out next week, he was to be a customer at a club. But he cut the scene as the film is based on a true story, and he wanted it to be as authentic as possible.