WEDNESDAY 5th March 2008
Over two months, in the dead of night, someone has been cutting the tails and shaving the flanks of 25 horses Gail Sephton keeps on her farm near Laurencekirk. Exactly the same thing happened last year too.
February 5, 2008 – 8:09 am
TUESDAY, 5th February
Young Laura John of Swansea, caught struggling to swallow two small bags of heroin, pleads with the court for help with her addiction. She funds her £1,000-a-week habit by working as a prostitute.
January 28, 2008 – 2:10 pm
MONDAY, 28th January 2008
Only after she’d given him £607,468.90 and fathered his child did Christine Handy start to wonder whether her lover really was Alex de Rothschild, the monied illegitimate offspring of a multi-millionaire, as he claimed. The cad has fled.
January 22, 2008 – 11:35 am
TUESDAY, 22nd January 2008
When Katy Thornes discovered £100 and her credit card had vanished from her bag, her colleague Lyndsey blamed the inmates the two podiatrists had just been treating at Haverigg jail. But a few days later Lyndsey Graham is trying on clothes at Top Shop, paying with Katy’s card.
January 8, 2008 – 6:11 am
TUESDAY, 8th January 2008
Outside Thwaites Empire Theatre in Blackburn yobs etched rude words into paintwork of parents’ parked cars. It took years campaigning to reopen the 1910 theatre. One miscreant found a half-brick. As thirty stage-school children inside rehearsed Cinderella, it crashed through the ceiling.
December 18, 2007 – 9:47 am
TUESDAY, December 18 2007
The Wiltshire rain was heavy. Paul was driving, hoping to see the girlfriend he hadn’t kissed for six months. Just hours earlier he had returned from Iraq where he’d been serving with the 4th Rifles, but the Corsa hit an oncoming taxi and couple will never now be reunited.
