31 MAY 1925
The King and Queen formally opened the new Great West Road, claimed to be one of the finest highways in the world. The aim was to provide a new route from London to the West and avoided the use of the bottle neck at Brentford.
A plot was uncovered to assassinate the Bolshevik revolutionary Christian Rakovsky in London.
Five men were burned in an explosion at the Darton Main Colliery in Barnsley.