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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21 December 2000
Publisher withdraws ‘River Kwai’ diet book
The River Kwai Diet was a short-lived fad that achieved notoriety when public opinion forced a leading publisher to pulp all copies of a book based upon it. Read on...