Today dated Friday November 17th 1995
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The Today newspaper was launched in March 1986 by Eddie Shah, but changed hands 4 months later when Lonrho bought him out. It passed to Rupert Murdoch’s company in 1987. In 1986 it was the first national daily to use computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing.
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The comedian, actor, jazz musician and composer Dudley Moore died in 2002 of progressive supranuclear palsy, a terminal degenerative brain disorder. Early symptoms of the illness caused him to be wrongly thought of as a drunkard.
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Essex schoolgirl Leah Betts died after taking an ecstasy tablet and drinking 12 pints of water, Her death caused a tabloid paper outcry against the drug but the inquest found that it was the combination of the ecstasy and the large amount of water that killed her and on their own neither would have.
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Fred and Rose West were a married couple who between them murdered at least 11 young girls and women. Fred confessed but never came to trial because he committed suicide while on remand in Winson Green Prison. Rose was tried and was found guilty of 10 counts of murder.
Janet Leach was a social worker who also did duty as an Appropriate Adult - someone who could be called in by the police sit with youngsters or adults with learning difficulties. She spent many hours with Fred West listening to his confessions. The newspaper group mentioned in the article was the Mirror Group.
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Yitzhak Rabin was the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister when he was gunned down on November 4th 1995. His assassin, Yigal Amir, was immediately arrested. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment plus 14 years for other related offences.
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You get to the final of ‘Pointless’ and the problem is to find an obscure Wesley Snipes film. You say, “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar”. The big board clicks down to zero and you win!
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On June 12th 1994 O J Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and a friend, Ronald Goldman, were murdered. The ex-American football player and actor Simpson was tried for the murders but was acquitted. Both Brown’s and Goldman’s families then brought Civil actions against Simpson. 1997 a Civil Court found Simpson guilty of wrongful killing and awarded the families $35.5million compensation, which due to legal wrangling has never been paid.
In 2008 O J Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison for armed robbery, kidnapping and conspiracy during a 2007 incident in Las Vegas.
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Having worked in offices and particularly IT departments for most of my life I really love Scott Adams’ cartoon strip ‘Dilbert’. Pointy Haired Boss, Alice and Wally join software engineer Dilbert in satirizing the madness that is life in an open-plan office. Books, board games, calendars, and even an animated TV series followed.
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Following the violence both on the field and in the tunnel during and after the Birmingham City game against Italian team Ancona, lawyer Henri Brandman, advised that the City players involved ignore all requests to attend hearings in Italy. The investigation into the incident carried on, and the threat of extradition and possibly prison hung over Liam Daish, Michael Johnson and David Howell for years. The three men were ordered to stand trial in May 2000 but they refused to return to Ancona. In 2001, goalkeeper Ian Bennett was called to give evidence for the investigation, and he too failed to attend.
(info paraphrased from the http://thetwounfortunates.com website)
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