BBC News
9th October 1963
Hello, this is BBC News, I am Richard Baker and these are the headlines for this evening.
Ugandan Prime Minister Milton Obote has declared the nation a republic on the first anniversary of its declaration of independence from the United Kingdom.
The Governor-General of Uganda, Sir Walter Coutts has stepped down from his role, and the monarch of Buganda, Uganda's largest region, Edward Mutesa has assumed the role of President.
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In other news, the Labour MP Michael Foot has died in hospital after suffering internal injuries in a car accident this morning.
Mr Foot, who succeeded Aneurin Bevan in the Ebbw Vale constituency in 1960, was pronounced dead at 4:15pm this afternoon.
The prominent socialist MP also acted as the editor of the socialist magazine, Tribune, on two occasions, and recently returned to the Parliamentary Labour Party following the election of Harold Wilson as leader.
The Labour Party Leader expressed his deepest sympathies with the family of Mr Foot, describing him as "a principled colleague who will be dearly missed by all in the Labour Party."
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In Memoriam of
MICHAEL Mackintosh FOOT
23rd July 1913 - 9th October 1963