Tactless note over wine lost on the Titanic
She faces life sentence after confession
SORRY Deaths are ignored A LETTER from the Titanic’s shipping company apologising for a lost wine delivery after the liner sank has been discovered.
The note from the White Star Line, dated April 16, 1912, does not mention the 1,503 people who drowned when the ship hit an iceberg a day earlier in the freezing North Atlantic.
The tactless missive spent decades in a drawer at wine merchants’ Berry Bros & Rudd who lost 69 cases of wine and spirits.
Creative director Geordie Willis said: “The letter will be kept as part of the company’s history.”
A GIRLS’ football coach faces life in prison after she admitted murdering a teenager 14 years ago.
Karen Tunmore was 21 when she bludgeoned 19-year-old Scott Pritchard outside his home in January 2004.
Despite a huge murder probe she was never caught and went on to become a coach with the FA Wild Cat programme encouraging girls to take up the sport. With no convictions she passed police background checks before being taken on as a coach working with junior clubs across Tyneside. She was suspended as soon as her arrest came to light.
Now 36, she would still be at large – but on July 31 she walked into a police station and confessed her crime.
Parents of kids she coached said she had “disappeared” earlier in the year amid claims of a breakdown, before SUCCESS Tunmore was trusted coach “confiding in a friend” who afternoon. She must’ve been advised her to go to police. juggling two or three teams.”
As a coach she was admired The parent added: “She was and respected by parents and never alone with the kids, but children alike. One parent said: it’s still hard to come to terms “She was really enthusiastic, VICTIM Scott, 19 with what she’s done.” and very successful. She managed to Tunmore of Killingworth, North recruit so many kids and they’d get FA Tyneside, will be sentenced at Newcastle head bands and water bottles. crown court today after pleading guilty
“She had up to 30 from under-nine to in August to murdering the Sunderland under-11. She would coach on Saturday teenager. The FA declined to comment. morning then take them to games in the