Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018
On this day 50 YEARS AGO (1968)
We reported the final radio message from Hull trawler Ross Cleveland which sank off Iceland in a gale. It was feared all 19 on board were lost. But one, Harry Eddon, survived.
35 YEARS AGO 1983
Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie arrived in France on war crime charges after he was linked to the murder of 4,000 Jews from 1942-1944. He died in prison in Lyon in 1991.
13 YEARS AGO 2005
Tony Blair overtook Harold Wilson to become Labour’s longest-serving PM after 2,838 days in office.
Birthdays
Guns N’ Roses star Axl Rose, dubbed the Ayatollah by bandmates, is 56. Singer Rick Astley turns 52 and Star
Trek actress Alice Eve, who has different colour eyes, is 36.
And greetings to Mirror reader William Florey, from Dunmow, Essex who is 21 today. If you’d like us to mention the birthday of a loved one, write to Birthdays, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP or madeuthink@mirror.co.uk
Today’s events
9am London Mayor Sadiq Khan at the launch of the Behind every great city campaign in Trafalgar Square to mark the centenary of women’s right to vote.
Noon Royal Artillery stages a 41-gun salute in Green Park in London to mark the 66th anniversary of Queen’s accession to the throne.
Today’s giggle
What do you get if you a cross a card game with a typhoon? A bridge over troubled water.