FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JANUARY 9, 1945

MorE than 256 cases of butter — six tons in total and equal to a week’s ration for 114,688 people — have disappeared from a Ministry of Food cold store in Newcastle. Police believe that it has been systematically removed over a long period, perhaps a year, and has gone on the Black Market.

JANUARY 9, 1965

ElIzABETH TAylor (pictured) is to renounce her U.S. citizenship and return to British nationality. John Springer, her business representative in New york, said that after her marriage to richard Burton, londonborn Miss Taylor had been anxious to resume her British nationality and travel on a passport that is the same as his.