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December 25, 1957

Detectives are searching for safe-breakers who got away with £450 from a Cromwell office.
The investigations may spread over the Midlands, for the same firm of contractors has suffered previous safe raids in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.

The £450, mainly in £1 notes and made-up wage packets, was taken from a temporary hut-office belonging to the Cromwell Weir contractors, A. Monk & Co. Ltd.

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Newarkers would have posted more than half a million Christmas cards and letters by Christmas Day. There was a good response to the appeal to post early.

"Most parcels that have been handled at our temporary sorting office have been well packed," Mr H. Cockayne, Newark's head postmaster, told the Advertiser.

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Newark Corporation has won the first local battle over slum clearance plans. The minister of housing and local government has decided that the only piece of land in the Lover’s Lane clearance area which was in dispute shall be compulsorily purchased.

Unless the decision is challenged in the High Court, the Corporation will now be able to go ahead with its plans to clear the area between Lover’s Lane and Northgate and erect five five-storey blocks of flats, providing accommodation for 55 families.

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December 18, 1957

A 17-years-old Farndon boy will be flying abroad early next year - but he does not yet know where he will be going.

An overseas flight with Transport Command has been awarded by the Royal Air Force to a cadet of Newark Squadron Air Training Corps for the fourth time in three years.

The much prized award goes to Roger Backhouse of Marsh Lane, Farndon, a member of the squadron since October 1954, and now a Flight-Sergeant in command of one of the two Headquarters flights.

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Crude oil at the mouth of a well in the Egmanton oilfield caught fire on Monday.

No damage was done and the well - 3,000ft deep and one of the most productive at Egmanton producing 5,000 gallons a day — was back in operation by the evening.

The fire was confined to about 40 gallons of crude oil in a sump at the top of the well which is close to the Great North Road.

Two workmen, Mr Thomas Turner of Tuxford and Mr Donald Harold of Mansfield Woodhouse, tried to deal with the 12ft flames with hand extinguishers. Tuxford firemen put out the blaze.