Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017
ON THIS DAY 30 YEARS AGO (1987)
OUR front page reported that Moors murderer Ian Brady had confessed to five more killings. He claimed he shot two victims, dumped a woman’s body in a canal and buried another body on Saddleworth Moor.
55 YEARS AGO (1962)
MARILYN Monroe is found dead naked in bed in LA, aged 36. There was an empty bottle of sleeping pills next to her body. An inquest ruled the death was “probable suicide”.
42 YEARS AGO (1975)
THE Forestry Commission warned that Dutch elm disease was spreading to the north of England. The epidemic was started by timber from Canada in 1968. It shrivelled leaves and branches, and could kill a mature tree in months. Over a third of southern England’s 23 million elms died in the outbreak.
TODAY’S EVENTS
10am Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attends Belfast Pride Breakfast. He supports legalisation of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
11am Summer in the City, the UK’S biggest Youtube convention, is on at
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Kara Tointon is 34. She was in a documentary about her dyslexia. X Factor judge Louis Walsh is 65. He was born Michael Louis Vincent Walsh. Ex-footballer
Wayne Bridge is 37. He is married to Saturdays singer Frankie Sandford. Corrie actor Antony Cotton is 42. He has been in 1460-plus episodes. And many happy returns to Mirror reader
Kevin Lumsden, from Doncaster, who is 56.
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EXCEL in London’s Docklands.
1pm Prince Charles is expected to attended the annual Mey Highland and Cultural Games at the Castle of Mey, near John O’groats, Caithness. 9.45pm The final of the 100m at