Your pages from the past: Thursday, October 1, 1953
Here's the Express & Star's front page from Thursday, Octover 1, 1953 - the day Clement Atlee (then leader of the opposition) gave a speech at the Labour Party conference declaring that there had been an 'easement of tension' over foreign affairs. In response party members stood up and sang 'For he's a jolly good fellow'.
Detectives were questioning shopkeepers in the Wolverhampton area in an attempt to trace a commando-style dagger, after two Polish women were found stabbed to death in the Wheaton Aston displaced persons' camp on September 29.
Ibrahim Abdel Hady, a former premier of Egypt, was sentenced to be hung on charges of treason and other offences.
Road woes are not just a problem of the present. On October 1, Staffordshire County Council was given £29,500 for road maintenance and improvement.
