FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

AUGUST 10, 1940

HOUSEWIVES will now have only four types of loaf to choose from: sandwich, tin, oven-bottom and batch loaves. The restrictions will economise on wartime labour and baking capacity and reduce waste.

AUGUST 10, 1968

MISS HELEN mirren is rapidly becoming a name to watch. The 23-year-old actresss, who first found fame in the National youth Theatre production of antony and Cleopatra in 1966, opened as Cressida in the royal Shakespeare Company’s Troilus and Cressida at Stratford on Thursday.