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Southern Independent Television held a reception at the Nightingale restaurant in Berkeley Square this morning at which they showed a preview of their new series 'Ladybirds' in which 7 singers tell all about their lives to interviewers Shaw Taylor and Terence Carroll

Peter Sallis (Cleggy) and Bill Owen (Compo) on the set of 'Last of the Summer Wine'

the Aurelia was designed to replace the ageing Aprilia

Bird identified by Catesby as 'Monedula purpurea'

Contestants in a dance marathon mb-code 2490343 Southern Independent Television held aContestants in a dance marathon, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1930. The girl has fallen asleep. Dance marathons were popular competitions organised in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Contestants attempted to continue dancing for as long as posible in order to win prizes. A 1935 book about the contests, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, written by Horace McCoy, who worked as a bouncer at dance marathons, was made into a successful Academy Award