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- ↑ Western Daily Press Friday 3 January 1969, page 4
- ↑ The Change Makers January 1969
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- ↑ Nottingham Evening Post Thursday 27 February 1975, page 8
- ↑ Faster than the Sun 1983
- ↑ BFI 1983
- ↑ Western Daily Press 3 March 1969, page 27
- ↑ Bristol Evening Post Monday 3 March 1969, page 42
- ↑ Bristol Evening Post Friday 21 February 1986, page 14