News about Brian Jones

The SNP has been accused of putting the public at risk with a 'shameful long-term neglect of policing' after officer numbers hit a record low. Police Scotland had 16,207 officers at the end of last month, down by 1,000 in just three years. It was the smallest number since records began in 2007, when the SNP came to power. Scotland's police strength was previously at its weakest in March 2008, when there were the equivalent of 16,222 full-time officers.

Wild letters from teenage girls wanting to 'snog' and 'bed' the Rolling Stones have been found in an old suitace that belonged to Brian Jones and gone up for auction. Multi-instrumentalist Jones kept the 3,000 handwritten letters that were sent to him from crazed fans from across the world in 1964. At the time the youthful band had already had two number ones and were at the forefront of the 'British Invasion' of rock and pop in America. Jones was a founding member of the Stones alongside Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1962, but was dismissed in June 1969 after he developed alcohol and drug problems. Less than a month later, he died by drowning in a swimming pool in his East Sussex home. The battered travel trunk was found in the attic of another Jones property in Woodley, near Reading, and was full to the brim with the fan mail. Some of the correspondence was polite and reserved, with one girl informing the guitarist she had 'dropped the Beatles ' for the Stones because their hair wasn't long enough. But a lot of the letters were sent from lustful teenagers expressing their carnal desires for the band.

Sir Mick Jagger has signed up as a new frontman for a group of campaigners fighting against proposals for One Battersea Bridge, a 34-­storey tower block of flats in south-west London. The £100 million tower will not only loom over Battersea, it will cloud the river view from Chelsea, not least for the well-heeled folk on the opposite, north bank only a few hundred yards away. Jagger has a strong affiliation with Chelsea and even lived in a flat in nearby Edith Grove with Keith Richards and Brian Jones during the earliest days of the ­ Rolling Stones .

The rock and roll life of Rolling Stones muse Anita Pallenberg and her relationships with Brian Jones and Keith Richards is set to be revealed in a new documentary. The actor and model, who is best known for her tumultuous love affair with Stones guitarist Keith Richards, passed away in June 2017 aged 75. But new unpublished scripts from her memoirs reveal first hand accounts of the time with the famous rock band.

Just moments after a massive 30ft boulder tumbled down, barely missing beachgoers underneath, Walkers and holidaymakers in Dorset wandered along the edge of an unstable cliff. A large portion of the 180 million-year-old cliff in West Bay, Dorset, where the hit ITV drama Broadchurch was shot after being pounded by Storm Nelson. Walkers ignored warnings and walked along the cliff edge, marveling at the sheer drop. Crowds gathered underneath and booed the pile of sandstone rock and boulders that had fallen onto the beach at 11.30 a.m. on Friday. The rockfall is the latest tragedy in the notoriously volatile area, where holidaymaker Charlotte Blackman was killed in 2012 and the area is dangerous, according to the authorities.

Bill Wyman blames the short stature of himself and fellow Rolling Stone Brian Jones (both 5ft 6in). Beatle Ringo Starr and Small Faces Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott (both below 5ft 6in) suffered similar deprivation: "Although the war ended in 1945, we were still on rationing until eight years later." We're all small because of it.' At the Army Museum, a pint-sized bill launching his memoir states, 'We are all little you know.' Could Small Faces have been prosecuted under the Trades Description Act when Rod Stewart joined in 1969? He loomed over his fellow mates at 5 foot 10in.

Balance is managed by a portion of the brain called the cerebellum, which receives information from your eyes, the balance control device of the inner ear, and something called the pro-ceptive device (where reports regarding your joints are sent back to your brain). The cerebellum sends signals to regulate your balance through nerves and muscles by using this information.

Charting the development of pop music from the 1950s to the present, with a fascinating event for every day of the year, a diverting new book reveals the strange twists and quirks of musical history…

Following the unveiling of a cryptic newspaper ad, Rolling Stones fans are assured they have worked out the band's new single. Fans believe the 'Angry' was a clue in a recent commercial that promoted their new album, Hackney Diamonds, and readers assume it will be called 'Angry'. Last week, the ad in an issue of the Hackney Gazette contained a fake double glazing advertisement and a number to dial.

According to court records, Chloe Wisniewski, 21, was arrested last week after a four-month probe. According to the arrest affidavit, deputies in Charlotte County went to a house in Port Charlotte, Southwest Florida, to look at a dog bite. While she was in the toilet, she heard'screaming' and then left to find Apollo, a three-month-old pit bull mix that the family had brought home the night before, 'chewing' on her baby daughter's hand. The mother said she retrieved the dog immediately, wrapped the wounds in cloth, and dialed 911.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The King's return to Sandringham and absence from this week's Royal Windsor Horse Show, an event that has been cherished by his mother, hints at a change in the post-Coronation system. The Queen had never skipped it until last year, when sickness kept her away. Margaret and her parents attended the first show in 1943, in an attempt to raise funds for the war effort. Pictured: The late Queen with her youngest son Prince Edward at the horse show in 1995

Because of the surge of cancel culture and woke politics, the director, who just made a film about Rolling Stones legend Brian Jones, says society is now'at the opposite end of the spectrum' from the 1960s' freedoms. Mr Broomfield's remarks came as a result of growing concerns about the effect that the views are having on the arts and freedom of expression. When discussing his new documentary, The Stones and Brian Jones, he touched on the subject. The film explores the'relationships and rivalries' within the Stones during their early years. It also explores the 1960s' 'iconoclastic freedom and exuberance' as well as its 'intergenerational conflict.'

Alice Sedgwick Wohl (inset), 91, has written an unflinching late in life memoir about her sister's luxurious but brutal childhood on a ranch in Santa Barbara and her sister's descent into bulimia and opioid use, which began when she was 13 years old when her father was arrested because she caught him having sex in the family living room with another woman. Sedgwick had spent nine months in a mental hospital where she became pregnant for the first time and had an abortion before she headed to New York and began her brief career as a muse to Andy Warhol. Sedgwick died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 28 in 1971. Wohl (the eldest of eight Sedgwick siblings) claims she was alienated from her famous sister for the majority of her life. The basis of her latest book, 'As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy,' explores the enduring success of her younger sister, who she once regarded as a "vain, shallow, spoiled child doing silly, meaningless stuff.' "I suppose I missed it then,' she says. I missed it in part because I didn't see it.' "I can say for Andy Warhol-all that I didn't have the eyes to see," she says.