FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

AUGUST 20, 1940 PUBLIC authorities are legally obliged to see that street sandbins and lampposts are indicated with white paint in the blackout, it was decided in the King’s Bench Division. Mr Arthur Lyus, of Bushwood, Leytonstone, who fractured a rib when he walked into a sandbin, was awarded £190 damages against Stepney Corporation.

AUGUST 20, 1968 TOM JONeS (right) will become Britain’s biggest money-spinning pop star in the next 12 months, earning £800,000 singing throughout the world.

The Welsh singer’s golden trail starts with a three-week tour of Britain in October. He then goes to New York for leading TV shows, and in December he will be ‘at home’ with just one TV spectacular. Jones, 28, who married his childhood sweetheart when they were both 16 and has one son, explained: ‘Christmas is a time when families should be together.’