25 years ago: Telegraph & Argus journalist Doug Akroyd was among 120 Britons stranded in a Pyrenean ski resort after the worst storms there in living memory.
50 years ago: A woman “fed up with postal delays” tried to post herself to the Postmaster General but the overseer refused to accept the woman-sized package.
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