From the T&A...

25 years ago: Representatives acting on behalf of the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy accused South Yorkshire police of ignoring admissions of guilt from senior officers as the initial inquiry into the April 15 disaster drew to a close.

50 years ago: Bradford’s employment exchange reported the lowest level of unemployment across the district for three years.

There was a figure of just 1,409 people seeking work seeing the rate drop below one per cent for the first time since August 1961.

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1912: National Insurance or social payment, devised by Lloyd George, began in Britain.

1965: Close-up pictures of Mars were transmitted by TV from the Mariner IV satellite, giving people on Earth their first glimpse of the Red Planet.