1 JUNE 1956, page 13

Maurice Tate

IlY JOHN ARLOTT' T HE news that Maurice Tate was dead seemed a personal tragedy to many who never, strictly speaking, knew him personally. Within his chosen field he was a great......

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I N the evening sunlight on Monday, I went to that least visited part of London, the Isle of Dogs. It's more than a square mile of docks, houses: shattered......

Mps' Salaries

BY DESMOND DONNELLY, MP M Ps' salaries are the strangest set of piece rates in the world—the more work a Member does for his constituents or the country, the more money it takes......

Staphylinid Intelligence

A mti ES-LONG cloud of flying black beetles caused near panic at West - uast resorts yesterday • . . entomologists called them Staphylinids. — Daily Mail, May 29. • HEALTH......