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'Ceefax gave you news when you wanted it' – Teletext at 50

An event is marking 50 years of on-demand teletext services, including Ceefax, ORACLE and 4-Tel.

Image caption, One job Mr Morton-Smith enjoyed most was getting the Saturday afternoon football results up, competing with ITV's Oracle service to get there first (pictured with colleague Lys Holdaway in the late 1970s) "We started working on the sixth floor of TV Centre and had all these news services like Reuters and PA and our job was to pick stories and write them up for Ceefax," said Mr Morton-Smith, known as Mort Smith to colleagues, who lives in Sudbury, Suffolk. Image caption, Mr Morton-Smith, who will be attending the Cambridge event, created a bingo competition and co-created Christmas quizzes and puzzles with Georgia Howard

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