Your pages from the past: Monday, April 28, 1986
Here's the Express & Star's front page from Monday, April 28, 1986 - the day Staffordshire based Wedgwood turned down a £151m takeover bid.
The day before, Sunday, April 27, Wolves were relegated into Division Four, whilst Halesowen Town won the FA Vase (a football competition for teams playing below Step 4 of the English National League System). Pictured are the empty stands at Molineux, contrasting with Halesowen Town's bus being mobbed by 4,000 ecstatic fans!
Bird breeder Philip Dugmore was fined £500 at Stafford Crown Court for illegally smuggling nine eagles into the country from South Africa, in an attempt to breed them.
Pennine Radio were awarded a radio 'Oscar' for their service to Bradford following the Bradford City stadium fire on May 11, 1985 - the worst fire in English football history - in which 56 were killed, and a further 265 were injured.
