Stunning Stones

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February

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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 Rolling Stones' last album of the 1960s is widely regarded as their best, with songs like the ominous 'Gimme Shelter' bidding farewell to the idealism of the 'underground' culture. Read on...

The famous sleeve, with Delia Smith's cake