Central And Finally

The city's longest ever carnival-style parade celebrated the local communities and artists that have helped Coventry over the past 12 months.

Firefighters in Birmingham had to improvise when they were unable to rest their ladder on some flimsy branches to save a cat that had been stuck for three days.

The writer tells how the president of the old Soviet Union Leonid Brezhev had just died, milk was 20p per pint, bread around 30p, and beer was 60p per pint.