Today’s birthdays

Mr Neil Durden-smith, broadcaster, is 87; Mr Charles Wilson, former newspaper executive, 85; Mr Robert Redford, actor and director, 83; Sir Richard Packer, former senior civil servant, 76; Sir Christopher Kelly, former Chairman, The King’s Fund; Chairman, Financial Ombudsman Service, 2005-12, 74; the Most Rev Kevin Mcdonald, RC Archbishop of Southwark, 2003-10, now Emeritus, 73; the Rt Rev James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, 1998-2013, 72; Sir John Scarlett, Chief, Secret Intelligence Service, 2004-09, 72; Lord Justice Holroyde 65; Mr Huw Edwards, journalist and broadcaster, 59; and Sir Philip Barton, Permanent Undersecretary-designate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, 57.

Today is the anniversary of the closing day of the Woodstock festival, held at Bethel, New York, in 1969