Homes lacking basic amenities: The Week that Was November 8 to 14, 1974.

Two council-commissioned reports had surveyed housing in Wakefield District’s northern division, including Castleford, Pontefract, Normanton, Knottingley and Featherstone and southern division, which embraced Hemsworth, Ackworth and South Elmsall.

Of 40,000 homes in the northern area, almost 6,000 had no inside toilet, almost 3,000 had no bath and more than 1,750 lacked hot water. The report on the southern division’s 29,000 homes found that almost 3,500 lacked hot water and an inside toilet. Across the two divisions there were almost 2,000 “unfit dwellings”, almost all of them in designated slum clearance areas.

The reports were commissioned to inform future housing policy, and a council spokesman said: “(They) do contain some disturbing facts… I think that, generally speaking, the environment of our district does leave a lot to be desired”.

Two men were killed and 28 people injured when a 6lb bomb tore through a crowded pub just a few yards from the Royal Artillery Training Centre in Woolwich, London. No warning was given of the blast at The King’s Arms, a bar popular with off-duty soldiers. The dead and injured – seven of them said to be in a serious condition – were taken to the nearby Brook Hospital. The dead men were named as Gunner Richard Dunne, 42, and 20-year-old sales clerk Alan Horsley.

The Provisional IRA later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Chancellor and Leeds East MP Denis Healey delivered a Budget message seen as representing four years’ more hard labour, announcing an increase in VAT on petrol that would add 8.5p to a gallon.

Other measures included a £1,600m tax boost for businesses, a small increase in the state pension and the phasing out of price restraint subsidies in the nationalised industries.

Detectives were searching for missing British aristocrat Lord Lucan, following the murder of his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett and an attack on his estranged wife Veronica. The 39-year-old Earl had disappeared hours before police were called to the family home in London’s Belgravia. They found the body of 29-year-old Miss Rivett tied up in a sack. She had been beaten with what was believed to have been a piece of lead pipe.

The masked killer was apparently disturbed by Lady Lucan, whom he then battered around the head. However, she managed to escape and ran to a nearby pub for help. A car used by Lord Lucan was found abandoned three days later at the Port of Newhaven, leading to speculation that he had drowned himself. The following year an inquest found him guilty of murder, and in 1999 he was officially declared dead.

Billy Bremner made a storybook return to the pitch at Elland Road when Leeds United’s resounding 3-0 second-leg win over Ujpest Dozsa gave them a 5-1 win on aggregate and a place in the quarter-finals of the European Cup.

Bremner, with only 69 minutes first team football under his belt since the start of the season, scored the second goal and provided inspiration with his cool and sometimes cheeky midfield play, said The Yorkshire Post football correspondent Barry Foster. The Hungarians put up a sturdy defence, but goals from Gordon McQueen and Terry Yorath ensured the English champions continued their European campaign.