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
Our Lady of Good Success Our Lady of Good Success Our Lady of the Good Event (; Filipino: "Ina ng Mabubuting Pangyayari"), also called Our Lady of Good Events, is one of the titles of Blessed Virgin Mary. This title is applied to a number of images around the world, including several in Spain, one in Quito, Ecuador, and one in Parañaque City, Philippines. The image in Quito was the source of an apparition to Mother Mariana de Jésus Torres. The title "Virgen del Buen Suceso" may have originated with Pope Paul V who, in 1607, gave this name to a Marian image he entrusted