Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2017
Our front page revealed growing fears for the safety of two Britons seized by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s secret police.
44 YEARS AGO (1973)
More than 50 people died in a fire at the Summerland holiday resort on the Isle of Man. A public inquiry later revealed it was started by three boys who had been illicitly smoking.
70 YEARS AGO (1947)
A British South American Airways Lancastrian airliner crashed in heavy cloud into a mountain in the Argentine Andes killing all on board.
Birthdays
TV’S Donna Air is 38. She started on Byker Grove. Actor Sam Worthington is
41. He used to be a bricklayer. Ed Furlong is 40. He was 12 when he played John Connor in Terminator
2. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Susan Lund, 67, of Bury, Lancs.
Today’s events
9am Sebastian Coe presides at the International Association of Athletics Federations biennial congress at London’s Excel convention centre.
7pm Gala performance of Evita at London’s Phoenix Theatre. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is returning for a limited run to mark the 65th anniversary of Eva Peron’s death.
Today’s giggle
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me – Noel Coward.