Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2017
Our front page showed the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks in London that claimed 52 lives and injured more than 700 people. Four suicide bombers on the Tube and a bus targeted commuters in the morning rush hour.
52 YEARS AGO (1965)
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, serving 30 years, escaped from Wandsworth jail with a ladder thrown from the outside. He would return to the UK from Brazil in 2001.
18 YEARS AGO (1999)
The third novel in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was published. The book sold 68,000 copies in the first three days and has gone on to sell more than three million in Britain. Author JK Rowling said she found the story easy to write and completed it within a year.
TODAY’S EVENTS
9.30am Second day of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Today’s agenda includes migration and health.
10am English Heritage are hosting a Grand Medieval Joust at Eltham Palace in South East London.
BIRTHDAYS
Gardener Monty Don is 62. He enjoys playing guitar. Actress Anjelica Huston is 66. Her dad was film director John Huston. Footballer
Robbie Keane is 37. He is related to former Smiths frontman Morrissey. Actor
Kevin Bacon is 59. He had a bust of himself made from bacon. And happy returns to Mirror reader David Field from Redditch, Worcs, 80.
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11.30am World No2 Novak Djokovic plays Ernests Gulbis in the first of the third round men’s singles matches at Wimbledon.
1pm London’s Pride Parade, celebrating the LGBT community,