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Back to Blood BrothersOn Sunday, 12th March Lyn Paul appears at a Tribute Show To Frankie Vaughan at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool. Organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain, the show is in aid of The Grand Order of Water Rats Cardiothoracic Centre in Liverpool. It is hosted by Frank Carson and features appearances by Faith Brown, Jimmy Cricket, Norman Collier, Ketih Harris & Orville and Rose Marie.
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Referring to life after the New Seekers, Lyn talks about how she "kept going" with her solo career, saying how much she enjoyed the freedom that being a solo artist had brought her:
Acting in Blood Brothers she describes as "a dream come true".
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| In the News - 2000 | |
| Jan | In the UK the National Health Service struggles to cope with a flu epidemic. In a statement to the House of Commons on 10th January, the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn, says: "The number of emergency admissions remained unusually high last week because of the flu outbreak, and many hospitals that had planned to start surgery today have decided to delay until the immediate emergency pressures subside." On 10th January AOL buys Time Warner for $162 billion, creating the world's largest internet and media company. . On 12th January the Home Secretary Jack Straw informs the House of Commons that, due to a "recent deterioration" in his health, the former dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, is "unfit to stand trial" and will not be extradited to Spain to face the numerous charges against him of human rights abuses. The former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, resigns as Chairman of the Christian Democrats on 19th January, after it is revealed that the party has received over £4 million in illicit payments. On 31st January at Preston Crown Court family GP Dr. Harold Shipman is convicted of murdering 15 of his patients. |
| Feb | In Austria the right wing Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider joins a new coalition government on 4th February, sparking protests on the streets of Vienna and condemnation from the European Union and the United States. On 7th February the House of Lords rejects the government's plans to scrap Section 28, which bans Local Authorities in the UK from "promoting" homosexuality. Peers vote by 210 to 165 to keep the ban in place. 72 days of power-sharing in Northern Ireland comes to an end on 11th February when disagreements over the decommissioning of IRA weapons leads to the suspension of the Northern Ireland Executive. The famous Peanuts comic strip featuring Charlie Brown, his friends and his beagle Snoopy, appears in print for the final time on 13th February - the day after their creator, Charles M. Schulz, had died of colon cancer. On 20th February, despite popular support for Ken Livingstone, Frank Dobson is selected as the official Labour Party candidate for Mayor of London. On 22nd February Cyclone Leon–Eline makes landfall in Mozambique. where weeks of heavy rainfall had already caused catastrophic flooding. |
| Mar | General Augusto Pinochet returns to Chile on 3rd March, having been kept under house arrest in London since his arrest on 16th October 1998. The German car manufacturer BMW announces on 16th March that it wants to sell off Rover - its loss-making UK subsidiary. Vladimir Putin wins the Russian Presidential election held on 26th March, having taken over from Boris Yeltsin as a "caretaker" President on New Year's Eve. American Beauty wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony on 26th March. Ian Dury, best known for his 1979 hit Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3, dies on 27th March, aged 57. The novelist Anthony Powell dies on 28th March, aged 94. |
| Apr | An Enigma coding machine used by the Germans in World War II is stolen from Bletchley Park on 1st April. On 3rd April a US judge finds Microsoft guilty of abusing its monopoly position in the computer marketplace. Two Leeds United fans are stabbed to death in Istanbul on 5th April in clashes with Galatasaray fans. The fighting between the rival supporters breaks out in Taksim Square on the day before the first leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final between their two teams. Galatasaray fans are banned from attending the second leg at Elland Road. Political unrest in Zimbabwe over the issue of land reform leads to the occupation of white-owned farms by so-called "war veterans". David Stevens, a white farmer, is abducted from his farm and murdered on 15th April. Five other farmers who try to help him are also abducted. They are released later, badly beaten. Another farmer, Martin Olds, is killed four days later. The Easter headlines are dominated by the story of a six-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez. On 22nd April the boy is seized at gunpoint by US Federal Agents from the home of his relatives in Miami (who wanted to keep him in the USA) and reunited with his Cuban father (who wanted to take him back to Cuba). |
| May | At least 95 anti-capitalist demonstrators are arrested by riot police when May Day protests in London turn violent. The Cenotaph and a statue of Winston Churchill are defaced with graffiti. On 4th May Ken Livingstone is elected Mayor of London, having stood for election as an independent candidate after being expelled from the Labour Party. The official Labour Party candidate Frank Dobson finishes third with the Conservative candidate Steven Norris in second place. British troops arrive in Sierra Leone on 7th May to evacuate foreign citizens caught up in the civil war. Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Tate Modern art gallery on Thursday, 11th May. On Saturday, 13th May the Olsen Brothers win the Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark with the song Fly On The Wings Of Love. The UK entry, Don't Play That Song Again by Nicki French, finishes in 16th place. On Tuesday, 16th May Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor are invested as Dames of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace by The Queen. On Wednesday, 17th May two Royal Marines, Alan Chambers and Charlie Paton, become the first Britons to reach the North Pole unaided. A coup takes place in Fiji on 19th May. A group led by bankrupt businessman George Speight, and supported by disaffected elements of the island's i-Taukei population, enters Parliament buildings and holds hostage the newly-elected Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and most of his Cabinet. The Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie Blair celebrate the birth of their new son Leo, who is born in the early hours on Saturday, 20th May. Dame Barbara Cartland dies on 21st May, aged 98. Sir John Gielgud dies on 22nd May, aged 96. Israeli troops begin to withdraw from occupied territory in southern Lebanon on 24th May. |
| June | Tony Blair is slow hand-clapped on Wednesday, 7th June, while delivering a speech to the Women's Institute. The new Millennium Bridge, which spans the Thames from the St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern gallery on the South Bank, is closed on its opening day (Saturday, 10th June) when crowds cause it to wobble. On 18th June 58 Chinese immigrants are found dead in the back of a cargo lorry arriving at Dover. On 20th June the Scottish Parliament passes the Ethical Standards in Public Life (Scotland) Bill by 99 votes to 17 with two abstentions. The Bill repeals Section 28, the law originally introduced by the Tories that banned Local Authorities from promoting homosexuality. The initial rough draft of the human genome - a scientific breakthrough that promised new ways of preventing, treating and eradicating many genetic diseases - is unveiled by US President Bill Clinton at a White House conference on 26th June. Improved drafts follow in 2003 and 2005. Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father on 28th June after the U.S. Supreme Court declines to review its decision of 1st June that Elián is too young to file for asylum himself; that his relatives in Miami have no legal standing to petition for asylum on his behalf; and that only his father could speak for him. |
| July | The Øresund Bridge, a combined road and rail bridge connecting Copenhagen and Malmö, is officially opened on 1st July. The body of an eight-year-old girl, Sarah Payne, who had gone missing on 1st July, is found in a West Sussex field on 17th July. Roy Whiting - a known paedophile - is arrested and charged with her murder on 6th February 2001. On 24th July the House of Lords votes by 270 to 228 to reject the Labour government's attempt to abolish Section 28. On 25th July an Air France Concorde crashes on the outskirts of Paris, killing 114 people. As a result Air France and British Airways take their Concorde planes out of service. The last 80 prisoners are freed from Belfast's Maze prison on 28th July. |
| Aug | Celebrations are held in London on 4th August to mark the Queen Mother's 100th birthday. On 5th August Sir Alec Guinness dies at the age of 86. The following day broadcaster Sir Robin Day dies, aged 76. The Russian Navy's nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea on 12th August. Rescuers, among them British and Norwegian divers, fail to save the 118 sailors aboard. A Gulf Air Airbus A320 (Flight 072 from Cairo to Manama) crashes after circling and trying to land at Bahrain Airport on 23rd August, killing all 143 people on board. The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire on 27th August, killing three people. |
| Sep | On 4th September Mo Mowlam announces that she will leave Parliament at the next election. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, based on Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, closes on 10th September after 7,485 performances on Broadway. On the same day the British Army rescues five soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer, who were being held hostage in Sierra Leone by a militia group known as the West Side Boys. One British soldier, Bradley Tinnion, is killed in the operation. Crisis! What crisis? Following similar protests in France, lorry drivers and farmers blockade fuel depots in the UK. On 11th September the government uses emergency powers under the Energy Act 1976 to ensure delivery of fuel to essential services, A Bill is passed in the Netherlands on 12th September converting the country's "registered same-sex partnerships" into full-fledged marriages. TV presenter Paula Yates is found dead at her London home on 17th September. On Wednesday, 20th September the Real IRA fires a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank rocket at the MI6 headquarters building in Vauxhall. On 26th September, as he takes to the West End stage in his play The Accused, Jeffrey Archer is charged at Wimbledon Police Station with perjury and perverting the course of justice. The Danes vote against joining the Euro in a referendum held on 28th September. The former Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, dies on the same day, aged 80. |
| Oct | Slobodan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia on 7th October and admits defeat in Yugoslavia's Presidential elections. He is succeeded by Vojislav Koštunica. As violence escalates on the West Bank, US President Bill Clinton flies to Egypt to broker a peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis but the violence continues. At a press conference on 17th October, he says: "We have made important commitments here today against the backdrop of tragedy and crisis. We should have no illusions about the difficulties ahead." Following the derailment of a train near Hatfield on 17th October - an accident in which four passengers were killed and more than 70 injured - Britain's rail network grinds to a halt as the biggest ever track repair operation gets under way. Julie London, best known for her hit Cry Me A River, dies on 18th October, aged 74. The human rights activist James Mawdsley is released from prison in Burma on Friday, 20th October, after 415 days in solitary confinement. The 84-year-old former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, also Britain's longest-serving MP, announces his retirement on 24th October. On 30th October, at the end of a month when large areas of Kent and Sussex had been left underwater as rivers such as the Ouse, Uck and Medway burst their banks, severe gales batter southern Britain, causing extensive damage to buildings, disrupting road, rail and ferry services and causing further flooding. On 31st October a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 (Flight SQ006 / SIA006 to Los Angeles) crashes as it attempts to take-off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during a typhoon. 4 cabin crew and 79 passengers die as a result of the crash. |
| Nov | November is the wettest on record. On 4th November the River Ouse at York rises 5.3 meters above its normal Summer level. On 7th November in the United States (New York) Hillary Clinton becomes the first wife of a President to be elected as a Senator. Meanwhile, the Presidential candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, have to wait while votes are recounted in the "sunshine State" of Florida. The state canvassing board certifies Bush as the winner of Florida's electors by 537 votes on 26th November. On 8th November Pablo Picasso's Femme aux Bras Croises is sold at Christie's Rockefeller in New York for $50,000,000. On 11th November.155 people are killed in a ski train fire in Kaprun, Austria. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones get married in New York on 18th November. In the UK police launch a murder investigation after a ten-year-old boy, Damilola Taylor, is stabbed to death on 27th November on his way home from Peckham Library. On 29th November the lower house of the Dutch Parliament votes in favour of a law allowing doctors to help terminally ill people to die - but only in very specific cases and under very specific circumstances. The Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act is approved by the Dutch Senate in April 2001 and comes into force on 1st April 2002. |
| Dec | Singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl is killed on holiday in Mexico on 18th December, aged 41. She dies after being hit by a speedboat whilst swimming in the sea off Cozumel. Coronation Street celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Archers celebrates its 50th anniversary. On 22nd December Madonna and the UK film director Guy Ritchie get married in Scotland. Bombs explode within a few hours of each other at five locations in Metro Manila on 30th December, a national holiday in the Philippines commemorating the country's national hero, José Rizal. 22 people are killed and around 100 injured in the Rizal Day bombings. |
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Darts: Phil Taylor wins the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Championship for the sixth time, beating Dennis Priestley in the final (7-3) of for the fourth time in five years. |
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