FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

MAY 6, 1981

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe believed he had a mission from God to kill prostitutes, the old Bailey heard yesterday.

Last week, he pleaded not guilty to the murder of 13 women but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. But the judge expressed ‘grave anxieties’ about the pleas and decided a jury should be empanelled.

MAY 6, 1997

IT COULD have been any family in the middle of a drastic spring clean. or a picture of everyday Islington folk selecting items for a jumble sale. But the organised chaos outside the three-storey house in North London yesterday was far more significant. This was the Blairs moving lock, stock and barrel to Downing Street.

Who’d have guessed Mrs Blair had 50 pairs of shoes to take? ‘The Imelda Marcos of N1,’ one onlooker called her.