TODAY: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2018

On this day

67 YEARS AGO (1951) Our front page reported a Tory general election win over Clement Attlee’s Labour government, giving Winston Churchill a majority of 17.

41 YEARS AGO (1977) Former Liberal leaderJeremy Thorpe denied in a statement any involvement in a plot to kill his ex-lover Norman Scott.

36 YEARS AGO (1982) Three RUC officers died when an IRA bomb exploded under their armoured car in Lurgan. The crater was 60ft wide.

Birthdays

John Cleese is 79. His dad changed his surname from Cheese to Cleese. Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon is 60. Violinist Vanessa Mae is 40. TV presenter Kelly Osbourne is 34. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Racheal Jeakins from Barnsley, South Yorks, who is 47 and Thomas Gosshawk from Maldon, Essex, who is 80.

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