1977 – The music publisher EMI ended its contract with the notorious punk rock group, Sex Pistols, after reports of abusive behaviour at Heathrow Airport.
1983 – The Royal Navy arrested a Danish trawler captain (Kent Kirk) for illegally entering British waters in the first confrontation of the ‘ fish war’. The move followed Denmark’s refusal to agree to proposals for a new EEC fishing regime.
1987 – The first episode of TV’s Inspector Morse was broadcast. It was based in Oxford.
1999 – Prince Edward & Sophie Rhys-Jones announced their engagement.
2013 – Jessops, the High Street camera retailer founded in Leicester in 1935 by Frank Jessop, went into administration. On 11th January it was announced that Jessops was to shut all of its stores at the end of the day’s trading, resulting in the loss of 1,370 jobs.
2014 – 54 year old Stephen Gough, the so-called ‘Naked Rambler’ was jailed for 16 months after a jury took just two minutes to find him guilty of breaching an antisocial behaviour order designed to prevent him from appearing nude in public. Gough has been convicted for dozens of offences, mainly in Scotland, where he was repeatedly arrested during attempts to walk from Land’s End to John o’Groats without clothes.
2015 – The death was announced of D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan (aged 90). In June 2014 he sparked a police search when he left the care home in Hove to join fellow veterans and attended the 70th anniversary
D-Day commemorations in France. His wife Irene (aged 88) died just days after her husband. They left their
entire state, estimated at being worth around £600,000 to the RNLI.
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