THE DAILY Echo whisks their readers on a tantalising trip through time to when dignitaries took breaks from their busy schedules to open cash machines and salad making competitions were held at the Polygon Hotel - May 1978.

On the national stage it was the same month as when May Day became a bank holiday for the first time - something we all still enjoy the benefit of - especially the hot one we were treated to this month.

On May 16, 40-year-old prostitute Vera Millward was found stabbed to death in the grounds of the Manchester Royal Infirmary Hospital - she was believed to have been the tenth woman to have been killed by the Yorkshire Ripper.

In football, Ipswich Town won the FA Cup for their first time after beating Arsenal 1-0 in the Wembley final.

In the European Cup, Liverpool kept hold of the trophy after beating Club Brugge KV, the Belgian champions, at Wembley Stadium.

David Steel, the Liberal Party leader, announced the Lib-Lab pact would be dissolved at the end of the end of the current parliamentary session, which left Britain with a minority Labour Government.

It was the same month as Katie Price, model and television personality, was born, and when Selwyn Lloyd, British Politician, died of a brain tumour.