Beeching cuts and the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester has increased significantly, and double track has now been reinstated on the Golden Valley Line. The Conservatives increased their Commons majority in the general election of 8 October 1959, their first with Harold Macmillan as prime minister, who famously said that most people "had never had it so good". Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle; Marples was described by some as "cocky", "flash", "slick" and as a "construction tycoon", and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a
It Rains on Our Love It Rains on Our Love It Rains on Our Love () is a 1946 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The screenplay was written by Herbert Grevenius and Bergman, based on the Norwegian play "Bra Mennesker" ("Good People") by Oskar Braaten. "It Rains on Our Love" is the first film directed by Bergman to include actor Gunnar Björnstrand in a credited role (he also had a credited role in Bergman's screenwriting debut "Torment" (1944)). Björnstrand would go on to act in nearly twenty of Bergman's films. David Lindell (Birger Malmsten) and Maggi (Barbro Kollberg) are not lucky. David landed