Sticky wicket
in Brisbane

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Teenage Hague lights up conferenceOn this day in 1977, at the age of 16, William Hague made his first speech at the Conservative Party Conference and achieved national notoriety as the archetypal ‘Tory Boy’.

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Blue PeterBlue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s television programme, was first broadcast on this day in 1958.

The 1962-63 MCC tour of Australia was the last before the abolition of the distinction between ‘gentlemen’ and ‘players’ Read on...

Fish protests such as this would become commonplace at test matches

Picture: PA