News about Ann Hamilton

It was a cool, clear October night and the welcoming Horse and Groom pub in Guildford's North Street was already jumping to the sounds of the latest 1970s hits. Inside, squeezed into an alcove by the ­jukebox, John Hunter and Billy Forsyth were among the fresh-faced squaddies drinking in their first taste of freedom from barracks life since joining the Army less than a month earlier. The girls they were chatting up might easily have taken the handsome Scots teenagers for brothers, such was their easy rapport with each other. It was born of long years of familiarity: neighbours from the same small ­Renfrewshire town of Barrhead, John and Billy had grown up together, played in the school football team together, worked at the same factory, chased the same girls. They had even signed up with the Scots Guards on the very same day, with the promise of further shared adventures.

A 10-year-old girl who tragically died in a devastating house fire that her mother and three siblings managed to escape from has been named. The little girl, Eliza, was killed in the blaze in Bradford, West Yorkshire at 1am on Sunday. The inferno took hold in the dormer bedroom she shared with her two sisters, aged 11 and six who managed to escape along with her two-year-old brother and mother. Eliza's mother, 37, was carried out of the property and rushed to hospital with the three other survivors, where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Tributes have begun flooding in for the little girl who perished in the blaze.

The relatives of a soldier who was killed in the 1974 Guildford pub bombing have been told that the police have a new'profitable line of probe, but they will not investigate it because they don't have enough time before the Legacy Act comes in. Any investigations into cases relating to the Northern Ireland Troubles will come to an end on May 1st, as it gives former soldiers and fighters involved in the decades of brutality conditional amnesties. Soldiers Caroline Slater, 18, William Forsyth, 18, John Hunter, 17, and civilian Paul Craig, 21, were killed in the explosion, which was carried out by the republican terror group during the Troubles in the Surrey town on October 5th, 1974. They were discovered in the pub by a young man and woman at an inquest in 2022 to have been 'unlawfully killed' by the bomb, which is equivalent to 18 sticks of dynamite.