On this day

43 YEARS AGO (1975)

Our front page reported on the Moorgate Tube crash, Britain’s worst peacetime Underground disaster in which 43 people lost their lives, with others trapped for 12 hours. A probe blamed driver error.

64 YEARS AGO (1954)

America tested a hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic one that destroyed Hiroshima – with 260 people accidentally exposed to radiation.

24 YEARS AGO (1994)

Fred West was charged with two more murders after more remainswere found in his garden at 25 Cromwell Street, Glos. He was charged with 12 murders, but killed himself before trial.