JUDGE FREES WIFEBEATER
Noodle rage headbutt
It’s revealed that the Smiler ride crash at Alton Towers theme park in the summer, which resulted in two women having their legs amputated, was caused by human
error.
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New licensing laws in England and Wales come into force meaning that pubs can serve alcohol round-the-clock. In practice few do.
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Plans were announced to take away the right of hereditary peers to vote in the House of Lords. In the end 92 were allowed to remain.
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At Preston Crown Court, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson are convicted of murdering two-yearold James Bulger. They had both been aged only 10 at the time.
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The frontman of the band Queen, pictured, dies, aged 45, only one day after publicly announcing that he was HIV positive.
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Three days after 21 people died in pub blasts in the Midlands city, six men are charged. They would be found guilty in 1975 but eventually have their convictions quashed in 1991.
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The man in custody accused of assassinating US President John F Kennedy two days earlier is shot and killed by Jack Ruby live on TV in a Dallas police station.
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British author Anna Sewell launches the classic children’s novel just months before she dies. It became a hit, selling 50million copies and adapted into a host of movies and TV series.
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Naturalist Charles Darwin, below, publishes his famous book, On The Origin Of Species, spelling out his theories about how animals evolve through natural selection.
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William Webb Ellis was born in Lancashire. He would be credited with inventing the sport after picking up the ball and running with it during a Rugby School football match in 1823.
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The Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman becomes the first European to set foot on the island which would be named after him – Tasmania, off Australia. He names it Van Diemen’s Land. A LOVE rat who headbutted his wife has escaped jail.
Anthony Robson attacked wife Kathryn after she caught him texting another woman and threw a Pot Noodle over him.
He beat her in their daughter’s bedroom, leaving Kathryn, 39, with a swollen, cut nose and bruises all over her body. But the dad-of-three, 41, was allowed to walk free to go to relationship counselling.
Robson, of Hyde, Manchester, admitted assault and causing actual bodily harm and got six months’ jail suspended for two years. He will attend counselling sessions to “build better relationships”.
Judge Bernard Lever told him at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester: “You had absolutely no business using excessive force on her. Your wife is not a female wrestler.”