100 years ago

The case of Churchill v Meadows, in which the plaintiff, Viscount Churchill, obtained an interim injunction restraining the lady from selling tickets obtained for her own use, admitting to the Royal enclosure at Ascot, had again been mentioned to Mr Justice Swinfen Eady in the Chancery Division.

The plaintiff's counsel now stated that since the action stood over from the previous week the defendant had considered her position more fully and decided to make an end of the matter by taking a perpetual injunction, and paying the costs of the action.

He said that the sole defendant, was a Miss Meadows, who had never had an invitation to the Royal enclosure, but was a lady who had dealt in these tickets, and it was a grave social impropriety that persons who had applied for and obtained invitations to the Royal enclosures should seek to make money out of it.

That in itself was a grave social scandal, as persons whose presence might not be desirable did not obtain access to the Royal enclosure.

Lord Churchill during the meetings, was responsible for the safety of their Majesties and their entourage, and unless admission was confined to those who were actually invited, it made it more difficult for him to perform the arduous duties cast upon him.

His lordship announced that the order would be as arranged.

50 years ago

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was confident that electricity generated from advanced gas-cooled reactor stations would be as cheap as, and later cheaper than, electricity generated from conventional stations in the United Kingdom, stated the annual report just published.

Progress made on the now completed reactor at Windscale, Cumberland, had supported these expectations. Commissioning was currently in progress at Windscale.

The reactor would be critical this summer, and after initial physics experiments, it would be operating at power later in the year.

Difficulties encountered during the start-up of the Dounreay fast reactor had been overcome. It had reached more than twice the power reached previously by any other fast reactor.

25 years ago

York-based Rowntree had a new symbol and logo following its change of name from Rowntree Mackintosh.

The company, which adopted its new shorter name in April, said the company now had an “immediately recognisable and internationally accepted identity.”

The tree-shaped symbol had been designed by Smith and Milton, of London, which had also created a corporate alphabet for use with company titles, a spokesman said.