Millie Week 69; Mon 30 Dec 1991 - Sat 4 Jan 1992

It's the new year, so it's time to buy that Gym membership that's going to last all year even though you'll never visit it again after 12th January.

Shell suits were very in at that time, gaudily coloured garments made of woven grocery bags, and sold at a premium to the kind of people who have never taken a day's exercise in their lives.

Comic nerds may be interested that, rather like the Mayan calendar, the Daily Mirror's date codes reset themselves every twenty six years. Tuesday 31st December 1991 was coded Z316, and Wednesday 1st January 1992 was A1.