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FROM among several hundred women from all over Wales who entered the BBC “Best Dress Sense” competition, a Cardiff woman has been chosen to represent Wales at the national final.
She is Beryl Westwell, of Westminster Crescent, the mother of an 11-year-old girl and a full-time secretary.
Mrs Westwell was one of five Welsh finalists who were each given £15 with which to buy a new outfit before appearing in the televised Welsh final of the competition.
She chose a turquoise-coloured sleeveless coat to match a shirtwaisted dress and white accessories.
If she wins, her prize will be a holiday for two in France. INSPECTORS of the public health department in Cardiff were sent out today to try to solve the mystery of the smell which caused children to run indoors and householders to quickly close their windows in a Cardiff suburb.
“The smell from outer space” is what residents in the Birchgrove area are calling the strange smell which, on two occasions, has lingered for several hours around the streets. A MAN stood in the dock at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court dressed in a blazer and blanket. No explanation was given as to why Saleh Said, aged 39, of Bute Street, Cardiff, was not wearing trousers.
Said was fined 10s for begging near Cardiff general railway station where he approached a motorist and said: “Mate, I am down and out, can you spare a few coppers?”
It was stated that Said had more than £5 in his possession when searched. THE four men killed when the twinengined aircraft in which they were flying crashed in North Road, Cardiff, died instantaneously it was stated by the Cardiff Coroner, Gerald Tudor.
Opening the inquest on the four men, the coroner told the jury: “The wreck is still being examined by the representatives of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the examination will last some time.”
The coroner said that he understood from the pathologist, Dr Patrick Roche, that the crash caused instantaneous death and none of the four suffered pain in the fire that followed.
The four men killed were Reginald Burchell, of Windway Road, Cardiff, Kenneth Woodfield, the pilot Paul Chambers, and Ronald Aston, of Cog Road, Sully. ELIZABETH Taylor and her fourth husband singer Eddie Fisher were on their way to a Mediterranean honeymoon on a yacht after they were married in Las Vegas last night, after Fisher had obtained a Nevada “quickie” divorce from his first wife, film star Debbie Reynolds.
The newlyweds, pictured above, arrived in New York on the first stage of their journey following their wedding in a Jewish temple in a residential area of Las Vegas. Miss Taylor was a recent convert to Judaism.
In the desert heat of 100 degrees nearly 200 people milled around the bride when she arrived in a car 22 minutes late.