The 1966 Football World Cup draw.

Prediction Spot: Dave Clark can’t miss with his new disc, Bits and Pieces. Meanwhile, Blue Beat, the dance brought to Britain by immigrant West Indians, is very much the fashion in London’s night spots.

Television highlights: Chess Masterpieces. Grand Finals of the Miss TV Times Contest with Adam Faith. Sunday Night at the London Palladium with the Dave Clark Five and Dusty Springfield.

Radio highlights: Juke Box. Sam Costa.

Weather: sunny spells. Frost and fog patches.

Pop singer Rodney Davis brought the dance to a standstill - because of his trousers. The crowd chanted “why are we waiting” for fifteen minutes while Rodney, his manager, a policeman and a steward argued about whether the singer’s trousers were too tight, for there had been complaints. To cheers, and wearing his trousers, Rodney returned to the stage.

Rugby Union Results: England 5pts, Ireland 18. France 3pts New Zealand 12.

Football Results: Division One - Arsenal 3 Burnley 2, Blackburn 2 Nottingham Forest 0, Chelsea 2 Wolves 3, Everton 3 Liverpool 1, Leicester 3 Manchester United 2, West Ham 4 Spurs 0. Top three - Spurs, Blackburn, Liverpool.

The Road Haulage Association called on the Government to drop its plan for a Channel rail tunnel. It said a road bridge linking Britain and France should be built instead.

Britain’s housewives are facing the biggest shopping basket shock of their lives. Prices will rise on over 1,000 items of food, sweets and soaps.

Sunday 9 February 1964

Scotland Yard detectives hunting the killer of thirty year old Hannah Tailford, “the nude in the river”, last night issued a picture of a diary. Hannah is known to have been carrying a similar diary when she was alive. And the yard are anxious to find it because they have been told that it contains the names, addresses and phone numbers of prominent people with whom she was having secret affairs. Hannah’s body was found in the Thames, near Hammersmith, a week ago.

Television highlights: Dr Who - The Edge of Destruction. The Avengers - Trojan Horse. Winter Olympics Report.

Radio highlights: Rugby Union - England v Ireland, in full. Saturday Night Theatre - Mr Justice Raffles.

Weather: sunny spells, frost early and late. Outlook - dry. 6c, 48f

On television last night, Sir Gerald Kelly told BBC viewers that the Queen looked at a Goya painting of a Spanish architect and said, “Hello, he’s got a Beatle haircut.” Tonight it was revealled that Lady Ormsby Gore, wife of the British Ambassador to the United States, has invited the Beatles to a masked charity ball in Washington on Tuesday.

Scores of families in Hemel Hempstead have promised the Post Office that they will not use their phones between 9.30 am and 11.30 am. They have made this promise because the Boxmoor phone exchange is overloaded.

Sport: Rugby Union - England v Ireland at Twickenham. Football, Amateur International - Scotland v Ireland at Hampden Park.

Supermarkets are using tricks to tempt housewives. They are playing slow music so that housewives walk around the store more slowly, put up displays that obstruct her path, and play faster music at the store’s exit so that she will hurry out and make room for new shoppers.

Housewives grabbed mops and brooms and joined the police in a hunt for bandits who had been foiled in a pay-roll snatch. The housewives joined the hunt in Lambert Avenue, Richmond. After a chase through streets and gardens, four men were detained.

There were screams and shouts as the Beatles guitars appeared on the luggage trolley. The crowd rivalled anything since General MacArthur returned from Korea. At the chaotic press conference, a reporter asked, “Will you sing something?” John Lennon, “No!” “Can you sing?” “Not without money.”

Saturday 8 February 1964

Five thousands screaming, chanting teenagers gave the Beatles a fantastic welcome in New York today. Pandemonium broke out when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr stepped from the plane. One of the policemen controlling the fans said, “I think the world has gone mad.”

Television highlights: For Deaf Children. A Song for Europe - six new British songs for the Eurovision Song Contest sung by Matt Monro. Ready, Steady, Go! with Ben E King, Manfred Mann, Kiki Dee, Eden Kane and the Kinks.

Radio highlights: Mrs Mills. The Path of Duty - talk.

Weather: mostly sunny, some mist and fog. Outlook - mainly dry with fog patches. 4c, 39f

Britain’s pop music writers are to get more money for their songs. Tin Pan Alley’s music men will receive bigger payments every time their tunes are included in a cinema pop music concert. In future pop music promoters will have to pay two percent of gross box-office takings to the Performing Rights Society.

Extra police are being drafted into New York Airport for the arrival of the Beatles. Organisers of the group’s ten-day American tour are expecting trouble from the army of fans who have been bitten by the Beatle-bug.

The most devastating male quartet since the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” fly out from London today to conquer New York. The famous “battlefield” will be the great 2,760-seater Carnegie Hall. The frenzied “assault” group - the Beatles. Fringed, frisky and friendly, this quivering foursome hope that a big smash hit at the Carnage will climax the most astonishing triumph in pop history.

Despite frozen, dehydrated and accelerated freeze-dried food, cans are coming back in favour. A large food chain is reporting good sales of their chunky tinned chicken. The Continental kitchen range, including Chicken Capri and London Grill, is also proving popular.

The Government are convinced that outlawing racial discrimination will not work. They believe that the only way to wipe out discrimination is by educating public opinion.

Beef is scarce this week and gales have cut down fish supplies. Lamb is still the best value, especially Australian and New Zealand legs. Pork chops are dear. Chickens are plentiful. Apples are still cheap, and so are oranges. However, grapes are up in price. Rhubarb remains a good buy.

Friday 7 February 1964

Within eight years the first train is likely to cross between England and France under the Channel. The British and French governments have decided that the tunnel is “a good thing - technically possible and economically desirable.” The next priority is to decide between a tunnel bored under the bed of the Channel and a tube laid on the seabed.