1970; Residents were fighting to save their area from being demolished.

An indoor bowling stadium, conference hall and multi-storey car park on the edge of Cardiff's civic centre were features of an outline development plan sent to the city council.

The plan had been prepared by the Colum Residents' Association as an alternative to a scheme by the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (Uwist), which wanted to develop in the Colum Road area.

There had been strong opposition to the expansion scheme favoured by the council from people whose homes would have to come down to make way for college buildings.

Under the residents' plan, almost all the homes would be retained and those requiring improvements would be brought up to date.

Physical education lecturer Robert Webster, of Penmaen Walk, Culverhouse Cross, was awarded a Royal Humane Society certificate for saving a Birmingham schoolboy, aged 15, who got into difficulties while climbing Bullnose Cliff at The Knap, Barry..

Pickets turned out at Cowbridge market as part of a National Farmers' Union campaign against the Government's "inadequate" review of farm prices.

However, no farmers tried to cross the picket line to sell their animals, as they backed the NFU's call for a boycott of markets.

The Ivor Novello award presented to Tom Jones as International Artist of the Year had been stolen.

Jones was abroad during the prestigious presentation ceremony at The Talk of The Town, London, so the award was collected by songwriter Les Reed.

But the 14in bronze statuette, worth pounds 30, was almost immediately stolen. It was thought it was taken by somebody who intended to sell it to a Tom Jones fan "for a small fortune".

Labourer Neil George Adamson was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a police inspector and nightwatchman.

Adamson, a 32-year-old Yorkshireman with a string of previous convictions, had sought psychiatric help to control his "terrible" temper.

However, the court heard, "nothing could be done except to give him pills to calm him down. Unfortunately, these terrible murders were not committed in anger but in cold blood".

Arab forces united to repel Israeli tanks that crossed into Lebanon to smash guerrilla bases. The Israeli troops came under attack from Syrian bombers, Iraqi artillery and Jordanian tanks.

Spies Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee - part of the Portland spy ring that sold details of Britain's underwater research - were freed after nine years in jail and pleaded: "Leave us alone".

The Queen was in South Wales to unveil a modern sundial at Port Talbot.

It was calibrated to give the time in the town and six other major world seaports to inaugurate a pounds 20m British Transport Docks Board tidal harbour.

The Queen invited Cardiff City footballer Don Murray and his wife to a garden party at Buckingham Palace.

Murray, pictured above , who had captained City to their fourth successive Welsh Cup win, said: " The invitation came right out of the blue. I needed to read the letter twice for the news to sink in. It had a seal so I gathered it was something a bit official. But the last thing I would have guessed was that it was an invitation to Buckingham Palace." Members of one of the oldest fishing clubs in South Wales were facing a problem - they had run out of water.

The number of ponds and fisheries available to the Newport Angling Association had dramatically decreased and now the 1,000 members were in danger of being left high and dry.

The previous year members had offered a pounds 50 reward to anybody who could help them find a suitable stretch of water, but they had no luck.

A new airport with international status should be built on the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary to promote tourism in Wales, according to Professor Brinley Thomas, chairman of the Welsh Council.

He told town planners that Glamorgan (Rhoose) Airport was insufficient to cater for the current level of tourism.

He said: " We need a new airport taking millions of American visitors who will tour Wales and the west before going on to London." Several thousand US troops pulled out of Cambodia in the first of a series of planned withdrawals.

Two women and a man died after a tyre burst on their Mini and the car plunged 30ft into Port Talbot docks.

During a tour of the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Lord Snowdon praised the staff for their speed and efficiency.

Britain's trade with the rest of the world dipped to a deficit of pounds 11m in the previous month.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was set to announce a general election for June 11 or 18.

A five-year-old girl from Penrhiwceiber died after a concrete and tile fire surround struck her.

The behaviour of a gang of youths who raced through Ninian Park Road, Cardiff, smashing house and shop windows was described as "rank hooliganism" by a senior police officer.

The window smashing began as fans left Ninian Park, where Cardiff City beat Chester in the Welsh Cup final.

About 30 youths were involved. As

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Opening hours: Mon to Wed, 9am to 6pm; Thurs, 9am to 7pm; Fri, 9am to 6pm; Sat, 9am to 5.30pm they raced along the road, they picked up stones and milk bottles and hurled them at 20 windows, including those of a Sikh church and a jeweller's shop.

Chief Superintendent W Williams said: " This was just hooliganism - rank hooliganism." In response to residents' complaints of inadequate police protection, he said: " Necessary police action will have to be taken to prevent this sort of thing next season." Val MacGillivray, a mother of two, romped home in the election for president of the Students' Union at the Cardiff College of Food Technology and College of Commerce.

A barricade of dustbins and prams, backed by angry mothers with their babies, closed a road in Cefn Fforest, Blackwood.

The residents of Elgar Close and Grange Hill, were protesting about the danger posed to their children by heavy lorries using local roads en route to a nearby building site.

After thousands of students in Mexico City demonstrated against America's policies, the security around England's football team, in the city for the 1970 World Cup, was dramatically tightened.

Manager Sir Alf Ramsey instructed his players: "You are not to go out alone."