News about Douglas Hurd

One night 37 years ago, hurricane-force winds ravaged Britain. But some of us appear to have thought something worse was hitting the country. Forecasters had failed to predict the severity of the worst storm for almost 300 years, which killed 18 people. Now recent reports have revealed that many feared nuclear war had broken out when the gusts began in October 1987. A number of respondents to the Mass Observation Project (MOP) at the time feared the Russians were attacking, a study by Exeter University found.

Dawn Ashworth has been carrying around memories of her murdered daughter Dawn for so many years that it's difficult to believe she was 15 when she died. Dawn was assaulted and strangled by double child killer Colin Pitchfork, a horrific felony that shocked the nation and took away Barbara's beloved child five weeks before she celebrated her birthday in the summer of 1986. But even though the 78-year-old mother is trapped in a lifetime of grief, Pitchfork is hell bent on serving out of the life term he was sentenced to in 1988 for the rape and murders of both Dawn and 15-year-old Lynda Mann, who both died in 1983.

King Charles is said to have reacted angrily to each day of his five years in Gordonstoun - the Spartan regime was once known as Colditz in kilts. Anyone watching the second season of The Crown has the impression that he was bullied as a student and then frozen to the marrow (with ice-cold showers, no central heating, and windows left open in winter). This is, however, a fictionalization of what really transpired when Charles was there from 1962-67. Well, Gordonstoun will be the one who makes him sorely. Charles' first few years of education were reminiscent of the Victorian period. In fact, if the clock had been turned back a century, it's unlikely that he would have noticed much difference.

Through Fort William, a police car is traveling at top speed. It swerves violently to avoid a military roadblock before a man wielding a Kalashnikov fires, smashing the windshield and killing the pilot. The vehicle explodes into a store front and screams with fire. Post-apocalyptic nightmare?Daring Hogmanay TV sketch?Not quite. Welcome to Scotch on the Rocks, a TV drama about a Scottish nationalist uprising that has never been shown again on the BBC 50 years ago. In fact, so put out was the SNP of the day by the show, which featured a fictional Scottish Liberation Army deploying Russian-supplied weapons in Fort William, when English troops gathered north of Glasgow, alleging that the series put the show's viewers out of contention that the true party was involved in conflict.

JONATHAN AITKEN: Despite being tubby and bespectacled, Henry was irresistibly attractive to women, dating a number of film actors before his marriage to Nancy Maginnes. When I stayed for a weekend in Connecticut, where he seemed to be surrounded by adoring ladies all day, I caught this first hand. The same phenomenon was on display at the then Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd's memorable private dinner party in 1995 at his official residence, No. 24. Carlton House Terrace 1 is located on Carlton House Terrace. I watched Henry captivate Princess Diana with his twinkling charm and mesthetic basso profundo voice.

The village has already been 'blighted' and 'plagued' by traffic including SUVs, according to residents near Winchester, Hampshire. The school should be discouraged, not encouraging, car use in the regions, and they stated that the lights that were supposed to illuminate parking spaces would not be 'dark sky compliant'. To minimize traffic in the old village, the local parish council recommended that parents start 'car sharing' to minimize traffic. According to the school's website, the co-ed private school dates back to the mid-17th century and 'could claim to being the country's oldest preparatory school.'

After a Parole Board challenged his 'openness and honesty with professional employees,' David Wynne Roberts (pictured), now 68, has been told that he is still too risky to be released from prison.' Roberts has now completed 15 years in prison for the assassination of Bronwen Nixon in 1986 in her guesthouse in the Lake District. The investigation, which culminated in a successful murder trial for 67-year-old Bronwen, was one of the first on BBC Crimewatch's Crimewatch to result in a successful trial for murder. Roberts was arrested in March, 1969, when he was just 14 years old, and the publicity led to his conviction.

Bronson (left), one of the UK's longest serving prisoners, has spent the majority of the last 48 years in prison, barring two brief periods of freedom where he was reoffended. Although Bronson has served in one of the longest prison sentences in the United Kingdom, numerous other people have been jailed for longer stretches of time for individual offences. Rose West, Arthur Hutchinson, Jeremy Bamber, and John Duffy are among those photographed on the right, clockwise from top left.

The mural (top right) is one of five in the Foreign Office that were created between 1914 and 1921 by artist Sigismund Goetze. They line the staircase (top right) in the palatial Whitehall building, which dates back to the 1860s. Britannia Pacificatrix is the painting depicting of Africa. To'remind us of our responsibilities and the possibilities on the dark continent, Goetze referred to the child as 'a little Swaheli boy.' When asked about the mural, Foreign Secretary Mr Cleverly said: "It doesn't worry me." I'm not worried about it at all. I'm sure it was someone else who was insulted or angry, but it doesn't bother me because we have other fish to fry.'