News about Harry Houdini

Blackpool captured the very essence of the British seaside with seven miles of sand, piers, awesing parade, theatres, and the iconic tower as a backdrop. However, it has now become yet another struggling coastal area. According to alarming new data, northern regions and coastal areas of England are experiencing a higher risk of death from alcohol, heroin, and suicide, which can be described as 'deaths of despair.' Blackpool has the highest death rate among 100,000 residents, at 83.8 per 100,000 people.

The Met Police have found that the MI6 agent, who was discovered in a North Face holdall with zips stitched together in his bathtub, died alone when he died. Inspector Neil John, the senior investigating officer, has announced that a forensic investigation was conducted, which included new tests on items from his Pimlico flat, which revealed "no new DNA" and "no further lines of inquiry." New methods resulted in the analysis of a green towel found in a kitchen cupboard, which investigators called a'significant find,' but only had Mr Williams' DNA on it. No new DNA was found on the holdall, its zip, padlock, and a key. Norman Baker, a former Lib Dem MP who specialized in the case, told MailOnline that it seemed to be another whitewash. The fact that they have no more evidence, no photographs, and no DNA has been found using more recent technologies makes me more suspicious. It tells me that someone swept up, but not Gareth Williams'.

Dynamo (inset) will be seen walking in some rather sad footsteps as he bursts himself alive in front of millions of viewers later this week. The magician, Steven Frayne, is about to attempt a feat that some of magic's most popular names have failed to pull off. When Harry Houdini, a great American escapologist, was buried without a coffin below six feet of earth in 1915, he set the trend in 1915. But he panicked when digging his way out, and by the time his hand broke the surface, he was unconscious and had to be pulled free by his assistants. He did go on to make a modification to the 1926 (left), but the event was submerged in ponder. Alan Alan Alan, a British magician, attempted the stunt again in 1949, but he had to be rescued and was moments from death when he finally emerged, shaken but alive. Antony Britton (top right) of his countrymen had a go at this year, but he was also rescued by rescuers, with photographers documenting the moment his hand burst through the soil. David Blaine (bottom right) had more success with a twist on the 1999 stunt, which culminated in him spending a week underground in a see-through coffin.

The snippet is taken from All Things Considered's national public radio (NPR) show in March 2005, just days after the street artist hung up his art at the Met in New York. On BBC Sounds' The Banksy Story, a 10-episode podcast series that chronicles the life and career of one of the 21st century's most popular artists, is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time. The revived conversation came after a decades-long effort to reveal the graffiti master's identity, which has been shrouded in mystery since he appeared in the late 1990s.

SIMON JORDAN: Leeds United will need to exhume Harry Houdini to tell them how they did it. This has been a tragic waste of a chance for this fantastic club, who together with their families, spent so much time trying to return to the Premier League after a 16-year absence. They were everyone's second team for a few halcyon moments three years ago, so enthralling was their football. However, although it is always the worst before the dawn, Leeds' current economic situation doesn't look like it did when they were relegated in 2004, and there is no reason why they can't come back up straight.

KIERAN GILL: You could have strapped David Moyes in a straitjacket, stranded him in a wooden crate, and tossed him into the River Thames behind Craven Cottage. However, it would have been a waste of time. You'd only have to see a soggy Scot wringing out his West Ham tracksuit not long after, because Moyes has turned into football's Harry Houdini this season.