Police seek ‘Quality Street killer’On this day in 1999, a short report in a local newspaper referred for the first time to a man known as the ‘Quality Street killer’.
‘D-Day’ drama as Britain goes decimalCenturies of tradition came to an end on this day in 1971, as decimal currency replaced the familiar British ‘LSD’
Jilly CooperThe English author Jilly Cooper was born on this day in 1937.
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28 July 1967
Homosexuality decriminalised
Royal Assent was given to the Sexual Offences Act on this day in 1967, effectively decriminalising private homosexual acts between consenting adults over 21 years of age. Read on...
Dirk Bogarde (right) played a homosexual victim of blackmail