21 JANUARY 1966, Page 3

THERE WERE THE, usual complaints about im- proprieties on BBC

television, and one com- mercial TV company banned all but the mild- est swear words. Snow and ice chilled the British Isles, bus and tube fares went up in London, gas and electricity supplies faltered in some places as the thermometer fell, two Russian bears were captured after two weeks' freedom in the Isle of Wight, Mr. Donald McLachlan announced he was about to give up the editorship of the Sunday Telegraph, Wales beat England at rugby at Twickenham for the first time in years, and the Post Office achieved some sort of record when a postcard sent by a girl to a young man in Bedfordshire in May 1910 was delivered fifty-six years late, thirty- seven years after the man had died.