The war, over rival claims on Kashmir, was judged to be the biggest threat to world peace since the 1939-45 conflict, according to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

United Nations Secretary-General U Thant appealed for a halt to the fighting after Pakistani troops crossed the 1949 cease-fire line but to no avail.

The fighting moved from the mountains to the cities. India invaded Pakistan and struck at Lahore 15 miles across the border and this was followed by a Pakistani air raid on Bombay.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bhutto said his country was ready to fight "for a thousand years" while India claimed to have knocked out half of Pakistan's 400 tanks in the fighting around Lahore.

l Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, QC, Speaker of the House of Commons since 1959 and formerly MP for York, collapsed in a London street and was dead on arrival at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner.

l Ninety four per cent of the English population belong to a church, according to a Gallup poll commissioned by ABC Television and two-thirds of the sample – 2,211 – said they were Church of England. Only two per cent said they did not believe in God. Compared with a 1957 survey, church-going had fallen by 14 per cent while television viewing had risen by 49 per cent.

l Miss Alice Bacon, a Leeds Labour MP who was Minister of State at the Home Office, warned that Britain was in grave danger of losing the fight against crime. She told a Manchester conference as the number of offences rose the detection rate went down.

l Lord Robens, Coal Board chairman, warned coal prices were set to rise because other costs like National Insurance contributions had risen costing the Coal Board an extra £5m a year.

l The sun-kissed island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean was on course to become an independent nation but would remain within the Commonwealth.

l A complex network of spy listening devices was discovered in the British Embassy in Warsaw just a few weeks before the official visit to Poland of Foreign Secretary MIchael Stewart.

l Jakie Astor's horse Provoke was the shock winner of the St Leger at Doncaster. Ridden by Joe Mercer, Provoke (28-1) beat odds-on favourite Meadow Court (4-11) with Lester Piggott on board by 10 lengths. Eric Eldin's mount Solstice (100-6) was third and Brian Connorton rode Ballymarais (20-1) in to fourth place.

l Ford announced controversial car delivery charges, which ranged from £3 to £45 on new vehicles depending on how far the buyer lived from the factory, were to be included in the price of all cars and vans sold on the home market. A new Cortina made in Dagenham and sold in Leeds would cost under the revised pricing system £644 0s 10d.

l Britain's most popular and influential live music show Ready, Steady, Go began its third series and was Britain's most popular and influential live music show. Cathy McGowan was one of the show's hosts and was known as "Queen of the mods". The Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Animals, Manfred Man and The Who? all gained their big break on the Friday night show.

l Freeholds from £3,275 on Northern Ideal Homestead's houses on the Temple Gate estate near Temple Newsam, with 95 per cent mortgages were available to suitable applicants.

l From Leeds Co-op a Velour coat styled by Rubert of London trimmed with shaded beaver collar, button-trimmed pockets, Raglan sleeves for 38 inch to 42 inch hips set you back £10. 19s 6d. (almost £11).

l At Top Rank's Headrow shop, a Hotpoint Supermatic washer-spin-dryer was priced at 77 guineas (£80.85) but included a free ironing board, interest-free HP and up to £40 in part exchange on a trade-in washer.

l At Safeway's supermarket in Headingley's Arndale Centre, Ritz crackers were down to 1/- (5p), 8 oz tins of HP baked beans 6d (2 1/2p); Quaker sugar puffs (large) 2/- (10p) and Princes sliced peaches 1/5d (roughly 7p).

l James Bond's Aston Martin took on a new look when it became the first adult four-seater. The up-market car maker Aston Martin revealed the DB6.

l The US suffered its heaviest losses todate in Vietnam with 68 Americans killed, 326 wounded and 11 missing in action in just two weeks. The Viet Cong was on target and shot down a US helicopter killing four Americans while a US jet fighter was downed west of Hanoi.

The £5 penalty had been in force for over 100 years having been introduced on April 1, 1860. British Railways Board and London Transport upped the fine to move it into line with 1960s values.

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