She was amazing for her time wasnt she
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2014
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon opened a new £1m pub, at junction 2 of the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in spite of fierce criticism from road safety and alcohol campaigners. The Hope and Champion became Britain's first pub ever to be opened at a motorway service area.
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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1901
Marconi carried out his first radio transmission experiments, receiving a Morse code signal across the water from St. Catherine’s on the Isle of Wight to Lizard Point in Cornwall.
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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1907
A riot broke out in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on the first night of J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World, when the audience took offence at the ‘foul language’. The riots continued for a week, but the show went on, heavily guarded by police.
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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Gem, I remember going to see Equus at what was then our local theatre and about a third of the audience walked out because of the nudity.
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
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Oh yes, it was pretty scandalous at the time wasn't it!“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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I never did see that😁Im not fat just 6ft too smallComment
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1995
Manchester United's Eric Cantona was fined £20,000 and a football ban over his kung fu-style attack on a fan. Cantona was nicknamed 'King Eric' by Manchester United fans, and he was voted the club's greatest ever player by the Inside United magazine.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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1547
The death of Henry VIII, exactly 90 years after the birth of his father Henry VII. His nine year old son, Edward VI succeeded him and became the first Protestant ruler of England.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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2003
Solicitor Sally Clark was cleared by the Court of Appeal of murdering her two sons after serving more than three years of a life sentence. Sadly, she never fully recovered from the effects of the appalling miscarriage of justice and was found dead at her home on 16th March 2007.
I remember this sad case. “A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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I remember it vaguely Gem so sad .Im not fat just 6ft too smallComment
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Awful.
Bad enough to lose two babies, then to be accused of their murder. Apparently as she was an accused child killer and a solicitor her time in prison was very hard.
Poor lady, and her husband
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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Gem, that was so tragic."Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
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2015
Sir Jay Tidmarsh, Lord-Lieutenant of Bristol between 1996 and 2007, found an old school library book as he cleared his shelves. He decided to return the book to Taunton School, in Somerset, and made a £1,500 donation to the library in lieu of a fine for not returning the book for 65 years.
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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I bet Taunton School library thought that was a good deal - a nice sum of money and their book returned!
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
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