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5 YEARS AGO

Six British nationals have been killed in the terror attack on a shopping mall in Kenya, David Cameron, pictured, said last night. A public health consultant who was due to take up a post at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is among the victims.

Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall last night where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages on the third day since Somalia’s al Shabaab launched the raid that has killed at least 62 people.

10 YEARS AGO

Finnish authorities are facing a backlash after it emerged that a gunman who killed 10 people at his college before shooting himself was questioned by police a day earlier over a video showing him at a shooting range.

Matti Juhani Saari, 22, turned the gun on himself and died in hospital after yesterday’s rampage at Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, about 180 miles north-west of Finland’s capital, Helsinki.

It was the country’s second school massacre in less than a year.

25 YEARS AGO

Lord Galpern of Shettleston, who represented the people of Shettleston in Glasgow at local and national level for 44 years, has died, aged 90. He was first elected as an Independent Labour councillor for the ward of Shettleston and Tollcross in 1932, and after the war joined the Labour Party. Having made his mark as education convener, he became Lord Provost in 1958, becoming the first Jewish Lord Provost in Glasgow’s history. This office overlapped, however, with his election to Parliament in 1959, and in 1906 he quit the City Chambers.

50 YEARS AGO

The big tobacco companies have abandoned their legal battle to uphold the retail price of cigarettes and from today prices in supermarkets will fall from 3d on a packet of 20 to “up to 4d” in 10,000 Co-operative stores. Fine Fare announced 3d off prices, and a spokesman said: “We have issued instructions to our managers to go into action immediately, and to put up posters announcing the cuts.” The firm said their 1050 branches would sell cigarettes at 3d off all packets of 20 and 1½d off packets of 10.

100 YEARS AGO

General Allenby’s forces have now seized the passages of the Jordan as Jisr-ed-damieh, and the Turks’ last avenue of escape is closed. The 7th and 8th Turkish Armies have lost all their transport, and have virtually ceased to exist. By Sunday evening 25,000 prisoners and 260 guns had been counted, but there are still great bodies of men and much material to be enumerated. A considerable number of Germans have been captured, but General Liman von Sanders escaped from Nazareth before the arrival of the British cavalry.