... THE BIG BANG! A big bang startled and alarmed the inhabitants of Sutton and the surrounding district. It came from Brock's worts Cheam, where, in a large, derp hole in the middle of field, lot of rubbish accumulated the course of manufacturing fireworks ...

... BIG BANG Many windows of Buckingham Palace were shaken and U.N.O. delegates at Church House looked startled when the fuse pocket of the unexploded bomb in St James's Park was blown up with a loud explosion to-day. The report was also heard at the House ...

... Big Bang For Heligoland tons of explosives will vMk verifications on Heligoland, W ® oa island outpost. i iir.^ B ' mos, 'y °ld German stock, er gound storage vaults and v > ,ln ten miles at sea will v Plosives. The operation will f f ? end of March. ...

... SCOTLAND'S BIG BANG VILLAGERS LEFT HOMES TO WATCH EXPLOSIOH An electric button pressed yesterday on the slopes of Ben Buirinnis, Argyll, released a huge blast, the greatest in Scotland since 1939. The blast blew up tens of thousands of tons of granite ...

... Strathbraan Big Bang First step towards ridding Dunkeld district of a menace which has overshadowed it since 1941 was taken yesterday afternoon. Five years ago German planes dropped high explosive bombs over three fields at Borelick Farm, Strathbraan ...

... DUNDEE'S BIG BANG Blasting Operations at Old Prison Some alarm was occasioned in the Bell Street area of Dundee this morning by loud detonation. It was ascertained that the explosion was due to the blasting operations which are proceeding on the site ...

... Not So Big Bang With more and more fireworks going to export, to-night's big bang will again be an austerity affair. Manufacturers have predicted that only one British child in 40 will get something to let off in to-night's Gunpowder Plot anniversary ...

... A Big Bang Plans are under way in Melbourne explode dump of 3000 tons of R.A.F. l>onibs on (he outskirts of Itape, New Guinea, early next year. Scientists throughout the world arc expected to interested in the experiment, aimed providing information about ...

... BURGLARS' BIG BANG safe door hits CEILING £200 Robbery at Glasgow r §Ws who blew open a safe in bakery premises of Walter Hubbard, Ltd., 65 Otago Street, Glasgow, early yesterday morning, used such large charge of explosives that the door was forced ...

... Big Bang At Murthly Murthly New Castle, built Sir John Steuart in 1826 for wager and never completed. was partly blown up to-day. Its demolition will be completed in a week. The laird of Murthly, Mr Donald Steuart Fotliringham, and his sister, Miss Marion ...

... BIG BANG TIMED FOR TO-MORROW BONA WE PRECAUTIONS. Scotland's big bang has been postponed until to-morrow morning. It was hoped that arrangements would have been completed in time for the firing of the monster blast Bonawe Granite Quarries, Loch ...

... Getting Ready For The Big Bang Wanted —Somethinc HISTORIANS regard Guy Fawkes as an unnecessary annoyance, but small boys and the manufacturers of fireworks regard him as a public benefactor Each year we are told that fireworks are losing their popularity ...