Express & Star

Your pages from the past: Monday, September 22, 1980

Here's the Express & Star's front page from Monday, September 22, 1980 - the day a tiger at Howletts Zoo near Canterbury mauled a zoo keeper to death.

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"Heart swap patients set to toast Paul's baby" refers to Paul Coffey, a Wolverhampton man who had had a heart transplant seven months earlier, who's wife gave birth to a baby boy, Benjamin, at New Cross Hospital. Britain's heart transplant patients were set to meet in Wolverhampton, and Paul had planned Benjamin's christening to coincide with this.

Pictured is princess Anne who was named the 'worst-dressed personality' in the world by People, an American magazine. "In a yearly allowance of £84,000, Princess Anne ought to be able to avoid the frightful fashion footsteps of her aunt, Princess Margaret. At home with the horses, 30-year-old Anne dresses like a stable boy."

"'Clients' face prosecution in anti-vice drive", as police chiefs warned that they may take action against 'customers' of prostitutes in Wolverhampton's red-light district in a bid to stamp it out in the city.

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