MPX5091014: Comedian Roy Hudd who is currently starring in "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Wimbledon Theatre, has got 10 tiny 'sleeping beauties' of his own to greet the New Year. Boxer dog Lily is the proud mother, and this is her first litter which she tends with great care. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091231: A surprise visitor to ward (B) at Seacroft Hospital, Leeds, was Kingsley a King Penguin from a Yorkshire zoo. Kingsley was there to entertain young patients in the childrens ward, and Yorkshire Television cameras went along to record the scene for a Christmas morning TV show. Helping Kingsley out was comedian Leslie Crowther. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091266: Britain's most modern motorway rescue tender went into action at Durham. Firefighters in astronaut-style protective suits fought their way throught the smoke and wreckage of a two car crash. Of course the victims were just dummies as the team take part in a training exercise, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087920: Sir Geoffrey Howe: Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe, his wife Lady Elspeth, and their pet dog Budget, surprised regulars at The Bell pub in Outwood, Surrey on Saturday March 6 when they all popped in for a beer. Sir Geoffrey dropped no hints about his budget plans for drinkers. Perhaps he was getting a round in before putting a scowl on the faces of the nations drinkers. Lap Dog .Budget takes a drop or two, with Sir Geoffrey and Lady Howe. March 1982 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087939: Mrs. Hambrook of the Old Manor Hotel, Bracknell, Berks, offered to look after a week old piglet of a large litter. She did not bargain for the pig taking possession of the hotel. Fernando, the name given to the piglet, decided the luxuries of a hotel were well worth cultivating and so he meandered around the hotel looking for tasty morsels. Customers soon took Fernando for granted and although the piglet never took to drink he discovered drinkers were good companions, and whenever there was a party Fernando was there. Soon Fernando became too much of a handful for Mrs. Hambrook and so, having saved his life, he has to go back to his brothers and sisters to be fattened up for the bacon factory. The staff of the hotel are very sad, but they all realise that a growing Fernando will be too big to keep as a pet any longer. Fernando with Mrs. Hambrook (left) causes quite a lot of amusement to the customers in the lounge at the old Manor Hotel. February 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087951: Arthur Mason is 23 years old he can box, wrestle, swim dive, ride horses, fence, dance (ballroom beep-bop and good at every sport) and has won 3 perfect Man competitions. He has a girl friend, Vera Day who played with him in "Fit as a Fiddle" and she soon learned that despite his figure, she had one just as good and so Arthur cannot lord it over Vera in the matter of torsos. Arthur is an East End boy and a part in his new film will be an East End boy, it is about boxing. And it is called Dangerous Return". Me once stowed away to America and served in Germany and Holland in the amry and won several boxing competitions. Of course Vera admits that Arthur's keep fit exercises has helped her a lot. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images