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Branch chairman John Coughlin dressed up as the singer to join 15 walkers on a seven-mile return trek from Newark to Farndon.

A TEN-YEAR campaign by a mother and her deaf daughter for a fair disability allowance has finally been won.

Their success has been hailed nationally as a landmark victory, which will enable thousands of other deaf, blind and disabled to claim the allowance.

Miss Becky Halliday, of Fiskerton, was told that the House of Lords had decided she was entitled to a disability living allowance for a sign language interpreter, to help her lead as normal a social life as possible.

CORONATION STREET star Barbara Knox brought shoppers flocking when she officially opened a new sweet shop in Newark.

The actress, who plays newsagent and sweet shop owner Rita Sullivan in the ITV soap, opened the new branch of Thorntons.

THE air ambulance was called to Newark Hospital for the first time to move a seriously ill patient.

The helicopter landed on the playing fields of the Magnus School, which is the designated spot for arrivals.

HONOURS were even when a Southwell team drew in the first football match against its French twin town, Sees ­— the highlight of a three-day exchange visit.

The high-scoring seven-a-side match ended at 9-9.

The 57 French visitors were welcomed with a reception at Minster School.

50 YEARS AGO

May 27, 1972

BALDERTON EXPO 72 burst into life. Hundreds have flocked to its many events ­— five-a-side football, knockout competition, revues, discotheque and a round-the-streets cycle race.

The ten-day charity fundraising bonanza climaxes with a parade.

Pictured are precariously-balanced Cubs taking part in the stilt-walking competition at Balderton Scout headquarters.

FACED with hundreds of redundancies, 3,000 workers are making plans to take over the Ransome Hoffman Pollard bearing factory at Newark.

If the firm, hit by Japanese competition and the slump in the British engineering industry, refuse to budge from their plans to sack nearly 550 at Newark and Bunny, union leaders will order the factory to be occupied by the workers.

VILLAGERS have won their fight to save the Royal Oak Hotel, Collingham, which was threatened with demolition in a road-widening scheme.

Instead, traffic lights are to be installed at the controversial High Street-Station Road junction.

CAUNTON MANOR, a Georgian country house, fetched £52,000 at an auction at the Clinton Arms Hotel, Newark.

Farbrook, a house set in 1,325 acres of land at Long Bennington, fetched £20,900.

MODERN concrete lighting standards are spoiling some of the county’s prettiest villages, says the Notts Association of Parish Councils.

Villages like Kirklington are among those with the new ten-metre lighting standards that “are totally out of keeping with rural heritage.”

100 YEARS AGO

May 24, 1922

In reporting on the relief scheme, Newark Board of Guardians was told the cost of able-bodied men in receipt of relief in cases of sudden and urgent necessity, and the extra cost of relief in unemployed men today, worked out at £100 per week.

Thirty men were working in the labour tent at the workhouse at Hawton and on the sewerage works scheme at a cost of £40 per week.

MR C. E. PEARSON, of the Newark Town XI, who was selected to captain on the sides in the first trial match at Trent Bridge, received an invitation to play for Notts against Warwickshire at Egbaston.

Unfortunately, Mr Pearson was unable to accept the invitation owing to a business engagement.

THE story of the disappearance of a roll of wire from a field and the subsequent discovery by police of a similar piece in a Caunton garden was told at Newark County Police Court.

The defendant said he had found the wire in a field, and took it home. He offered to pay for it.

The chairman decided to convict and fined him £2 and remarked that people must learn that they could not keep property they found lying about that way.

A MINISTRY OF HEALTH Inquiry will be held at the Town Hall into the council’s application for £1,770 for purchasing land for bowling greens and tennis courts.

THE annual sports in connection with the Southwell Minster Grammar School took place at the cricket ground.

The races were keenly contested and many good finishes were witnessed.