Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Our front page revealed The Queen, facing public pressure over the cost of the Royal Family, had agreed to pay income tax. She was the first British monarch to do so since the 1930s.
46 YEARS AGO (1971)
The Soviet Union’s Mars 2 orbiter became the first man-made object to reach the surface of the red planet when it malfunctioned and crash-landed.
27 YEARS AGO (1990)
John Major became Prime Minister after winning the Conservative leadership election triggered by Margaret Thatcher’s resignation.
Birthdays
Rapper Professor Green is 34. JFK’S daughter
Caroline Kennedy is 60. Film director Kathryn Bigelow is 66. Designer
Manolo Blahnik is 75. Many happy returns to Mirror reader Ethan Edwards from Birmingham, 15 today.
Today’s events
2.30pm Third day of debate on the Budget, including Ten Minute Rule Bill on Universal Credit. 6.30pm Prime Minister Theresa May is among the guests at the British Curry Awards at Battersea Evolution in South West London. 7.15pm Phil Collins plays the second of two rescheduled dates at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of his Not Dead Yet tour.
Today’s giggle
My friend boasted he had the body of a Greek god. I had to explain where Buddha actually came from.