FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2018

ON THIS DAY 78 YEARS AGO (1940)

We announced that Winston Churchill had become war

Prime Minister after Neville Chamberlain quit. He lost a vote of no confidence following the British withdrawal from Norway and the fall of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg to the Nazis.

55 YEARS AGO (1963)

Brit Greville Wynne was jailed for eight years, including five years’ hard labour, on spying charges in Russia. His Russian co-accused, Oleg Penkovsky, was executed by firing squad.

33 YEARS AGO (1985)

A fire at Bradford City’s Valley Parade stadium during a Third Division match against Lincoln City killed 65 and hurt more than 260. The blaze began in a wooden stand earmarked for demolition. It led to new safety standards in football grounds, including the banning of wooden stands.

TODAY’S EVENTS

11am Foreign Office permanent secretary Sir Simon Mcdonald delivers speech on post-brexit foreign policy to Royal United Services Institute in London. 12.05pm The Mounted Band of the

BIRTHDAYS

Australian singer Holly Valance is 35. She started her career on Neighbours. Rosemary and Thyme actress Pam Ferris is 70.

She grew up in New Zealand. Snooker player John Parrott is 54. Designer Valentino is 86. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Heather Hesketh from Widnes, Cheshire, who is 40 and to young reader Charlie Pope from Chippenham, Wilts, who turns 8 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 yourvoice@mirror.co.uk

Valentino, 86