TWO pilots were killed when two RAF Meteor jets collided and crashed at Edgworth near Darwen.
Wreckage was scattered over half a mile.
Prince Charles was five years old. He spent his birthday at Royal Lodge, Windsor, with Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, but unlike the previous year there was no tea-party.
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