FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

MARCH 5, 1965

ZOO man David Attenborough has been appointed £5,000-a-year controller of BBC 2 — which surprised many of the Corporation’s 20,000 employees because he leapfrogged many long-serving TV executives. Attenborough used to spend six months of the year hunting animals for Zoo Quest, the other six writing and lecturing.

MARCH 5, 1969

TWINS Ronald and Reginald Kray and four members of their ‘firm’ were found guilty last night of murder. Three others, including eldest Kray brother Charles, were convicted as accessories. All will be sentenced today. [The verdicts in the London gangland killings of Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie and George Cornell came at the end of what was then the most costly Old Bailey hearing ever.]