FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

MAY 30, 1960

ACTRESS Sophia Loren (right), robbed of jewellery said to be worth £185,000 in Britain’s biggest- ever gem theft, lay drugged under a doctor’s care last night at her home near Elstree, where she is filming The Millionairess. To the 24-year-old girl who rose from a Naples slum to be a sultry idol of the screen, the stolen gems were milestones along her path to success. Most of them were not insured.

MAY 30, 1967

JUST two of the 500 delegates at the conference of the National Association of Head Teachers voted against keeping the cane in schools, so rejecting a key recommendation of the Plowden Report, which aims for a ban on corporal punishment.