FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

MAY 9, 1964 TeLeviSiON researchers doing work for a new programme recently asked members of the public: ‘Have you heard of Lenin?’

And the answer they got from four people was: ‘Yes, he’s one of The Beatles — the married one.’ Lenin, the first Soviet president died in 1924 . . . and the married Beatle is John Lennon. MAY 9, 1969 A NeW sort of motorway madness is growing — more and more pets are being thrown out of cars in the hope that they will be killed by speeding traffic.

Chief offenders are families going on holiday. They don’t want to pay kennel fees, so they push the dog out onto the road.

RSPCA inspector Mr Allan Simms, of Rugby, said: ‘in the past year i have been told of about a dozen dogs a week which have been abandoned on motorways.’