Lesson 17 Section 1. Task 1. News in brief.
Here is a summary of the news.
Shots are fired in a south London street by escaping banker robbers.
Four rock fans die in a stampede at a concert in Chicago.
And how an air France Concorde was involved in the closest recorded miss in aviation history.
Shots were fired this morning in the course of an 80 mile per hour chase along Brixton High Road in London.
A police constable was injured by a flying glass when a bullet shattered his windscreen as he was pursuing a car containing four men who had earlier raided a branch of Barclays Bank at Stockwell.
Police Constable Robert Cranley has been patrolling near the bank when the alarm was given.
The raiders made their getaway in a stolen Jaguar which was later found abandoned in Croydon.
Officials of the bank later announced that 16,000 pounds had been stolen.
Four people were killed and more then fifty injured when fans rushed to get into a stadium in Chicago yesterday where the British pop group Fantasy were giving a concert.
The incident occurred when gates were opened to admit a huge crowd of young people waiting outside the stadium for the sale of unreserved seat tickets.
People were knocked over in the rush and trampled underfoot as the crowd surged forward.
The concert later went ahead as planned with Fantasy unaware of what had happened.
A police spokesman said that they had decided to allow the concert to proceed in order to avoid further trouble.
There has been criticism of the concert organizers for not ensuring that all the tickets were sold in advance.
Roy Thompson, leader of Fantasy, said afterwards that the whole group was shattered when they heard what had happened.
They are now considering calling off the rest of their United States tour.
The United States Air Force has admitted that a formation of its fighters and an Air France Concorde recently missed colliding by as little as ten feet.
The Air Force accepts the blame for what was the closest recorded miss in aviation history.
According to the Air Force spokesman, when the Concorde was already 70 miles out over the Atlantic, on a scheduled flight to Paris from Dulles International Airport, Washington, four US Air Force F-15s approached at speed from the left.
The lead plane missed the underside of Concorde's nose by 10 feet, while another passed only 15 feet in front of the cockpit.
Forest fires in the south of France have claimed the life of another fireman as they continue to rage in the hills between Frejus and Cannes.
Fanned by strong westerly winds, the flames are now threatening several villages and many holiday homes have had to be abandoned.
The French army was called in yesterday to assist the 15,000 fire fighters that have so far been unable to contain the spread of the blaze.
A demonstration against race prejudice drew thousands of people to central London this morning.
It was organized by the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress under the banner United against Racialism.
The march was led by several leading Labour Party and Trades Union officials.
It was a column that stretched for over two miles and it took the demonstrators nearly 3 hours to cover the distance from Speakers' Corner to Trafalar Square.
There were representatives from more than 20 major unions, as well as community workers and various ethnic groups.
By the time, the march reached Trafalgar Square, an estimated 15,000 people had joined it.
Heathrow Airport police are investigating how a mailbag containing nearly 750,000 pounds worth of jewels went missing between Geneva and London.
The mailbag was believed to be on its way to a London dealer from a jeweller in Geneva five weeks ago, but it was not realized it was missing until the Post Office reported the fact to Scotland Yard two days ago.
The mailbag contained a diamond, an emerald and two rubies valued at 635,200 pounds plus a number of stones of lesser value, according to a police spokesman at Heathrow.
Football. The draw for the semi-final of the F.A Cup was made earlier today.
Liverpool will play Manchester City while Arsenal will meet Nottingham Forest. And that's the end of the news.