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29/10/2018 Press Headlines There are 3 separate sets of initials per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes a word that is (or starts with) the key word from the name of a current British national newspaper (Daily or Sunday)

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1.

1844: “WHGW” becomes the first MCMS via ET

“What hath God wrought?”;

morse code message sent;

electric telegraph

2.

1851: POMD including chief MS later to be used as name for a CSC

Publication of Moby Dick;

mate Starbuck;

coffee shop chain

3.

1854: POCD shortest NHT set in the fictional NTOC

Publication of Charles Dickens’;

novel Hard Times; Northern town of Coketown

4.

1919: TOVS in HOM exactly five years after TAOAFF

Treaty of Versailles signed;

Hall of Mirrors;

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

5.

1946: IAWL debuts with JS, and Henry Travers playing his GA

It’s A Wonderful Life;

James Stewart;

guardian angel

6.

1969: BCATSK (based on real life RPAH Longabaugh) ends with a SIB

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid;

Robert Parker and Harry;

shootout in Bolivia

7.

1977: Debut of CS whose TPF had the slogans ‘PTTP’A‘FFT

Citizen Smith;

Tooting Popular Front;

‘Power to the People’ and ‘Freedom for Tooting’

8.

1984: WEDOSE featuring RS routines devised by AP

West End debut of Starlight Express;

roller skating;

Arlene Phillips

9.

1998: ALTI designed by JI who later designed TIIAI

Apple launch the iMac;

Jonathan Ive;

the iPod, iPhone and the iPad

10.

2000: M a new SAO complex opens on the former site of BMSO

Mailbox;

shopping and office;

Birmingham’s main sorting office