FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 13, 1971

PRINCESS Anne has accepted an invitation to join 300 sports personalities on BBC TV’s Sports Review of the Year programme next week. It increased speculation that the show-jumping Princess may have won the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award.

DECEMBER 13, 1988

A DOUBLE signals failure was blamed last night for the Clapham Junction railway disaster, the worst in Britain for 21 years. As a public inquiry into the tragedy was announced, experts pinpointed a failure in Junction Box A, controlling europe’s biggest commuter network. The morning rush-hour crash involved three trains and nearly 1,400 travellers [35 people were killed and 484 injured].