Your pages from the past: Saturday, August 9, 1969
Here's the Express & Star's front page from Saturday, August 9, 1969 - the day Britain decided not to devalue the pound after France suddenly devalued the franc.
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Pictured are Stoke City fans who came to watch them play Wolves at Molineux stadium as the football season began. "Police 'on the ball' for rowdies" the paper also read.
Also on the front page was the story of a whippet which had gone missing the week before after being sent from Wolverhampton to Dover by train, was found alive and 'relatively well' in London Euston station.
On the Friday night, Senator Edward Kennedy denied the claim that he'd asked his cousin Joseph Gargan to take the blame for driving the car in which Mary Jo Kopechne died.
