A 12-INCH spanner was a clue that police were hoping would help in their hunt for an armed gang.
The gang had robbed a Sherwood bank of �4,000 the previous week. The spanner had been brandished by one of the raiders as he vaulted over the counter to go through the tills.
Police found it in the robbers' abandoned bronze Jaguar, which had been stolen in Birmingham. The car had been dumped less than a mile from the hold-up, in Carrington.
"This could belong to someone's set of spanners," a police spokesman said. "We are checking out garages in the area to trace its origin."
The spanner did not belong to the Jag's Birmingham owner.
The National Coal Board was to invest �110,000 in Gedling Colliery.
The colliery, one of the nation's biggest producers of coal, was to get the money for a pit bottom reorganisation scheme which had been designed to eliminate underground transport bottlenecks and release more than 30 pit bottom workers for other more productive duties.
Work was to start soon on the scheme, and was to be done by the end of the year.
At Plessey Telecommunications, shop stewards circulated to 4,000 hourly-paid workers details of a new offer under a pay and productivity scheme.
Meanwhile, 1,000 clerks remained on strike for a second of four planned days.
The new offer to hourly-paid workers meant an extra �1 a week in addition to the �2 under a recent offer.
The clerks were asking for a 35s increase and a new grading scheme. The firm had offered 30s for men and 24s for women. However, that was providing that the new grading scheme was withdrawn. Bosses were also not prepared to meet with the workers, members of the Clerical Administrative Workers' Union, until they returned to work and withdrew sanctions.
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