Black Dog’s Tail dockedOn this day in 1965 workmen entered the chamber of the House of Commons and cut down Black Dog’s Tail, the length of tarred rope from HMS Victory that had hung from the ceiling since the ship’s return from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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13 February 1999
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’. Read on...
Inchsmith's victims could not resist his Quality Street toffees