TODAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017

On this day 49 YEARS AGO (1968)

Our front page revealed that James Earl Ray, the suspect in the shooting of Dr Martin Luther King, would have a heavy police guard in court after he was arrested at Heathrow.

31 YEARS AGO (1986)

Patrick Joseph Magee was convicted of carrying out the Brighton bombing which killed five people at the 1984 Tory Party conference.

17 YEARS AGO (2000)

London’s Millennium Bridge was forced to close after the wind caused it to sway under the weight of hundreds of pedestrians.