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New Seekers
Sentimental Seventies
(CD cover)
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New Seekers
Beg, Steal Or Borrow
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| SITE LINKS New Seekers New Seekers: Compilation Albums New Seekers on TV: 2001 In Print In Print 2001 In Print: programmes Blood Brothers Dick Whittington Message from Lyn On the Net On the Net: Theatre On the Net: Blood Brothers Photo Album Photo Album: 1990-2009 Photo Album Blood Brothers Site News Site News 2001 |
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Blood Brothers
Methuen
Publishing Ltd.
On 9th May,
just a few days
after Lyn Paul's
last night
in the
West End
production
of the show,
Methuen publish
a new paperback
edition of
Blood Brothers.
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Lyn Paul
as Dick Whittington,
December 2001
(Windsor)
Click on the photo
for the
full size image:
(32 K).
| WEB LINKS Dick Whittington Theatre Royal Windsor |
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Dick Whittington
programme
(Theatre Royal,
Windsor).
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Jesus Christ
Superstar
London Revival Cast
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No More Tears
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| In the News - 2001 | |
| Jan | The Wikipedia website goes online on 15th January. On 12th January the carers of an eight-year-old girl, Victoria Climbié, are found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Victoria had died on 25th February 2000, after being rushed to the North Middlesex Hospital suffering from a combination of malnutrition and hypothermia. Dr. Nathaniel Carey, the Home Office pathologist who examined her body, found 128 separate injuries and scars, many of them cigarette burns. In his evidence to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry, the report of which is presented to Parliament in January 2003, he describes it as the worst case of child abuse he had ever dealt with. Twins adopted on the internet by a British couple, Alan and Judith Kilshaw, are taken into protective custody by police and social services on 18th January. On the same day the funeral takes place of Damilola Taylor, the ten-year-old boy murdered on his way home from an after-school computer club in Peckham in November 2000. On 20th January George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd President of the USA. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Mandelson, resigns from the UK government on 24th January, having become embroiled in the Hinduja passport scandal. The Prime Minister Tony Blair announces an inquiry into the events surrounding the passport applications of Gopichand Hinduja and his brother Srichand Hinduja. A huge earthquake devastates the Gujarat region of India on 26th January. 25,000 people are killed. The Broadway production of Miss Saigon closes on 28th January after 4,092 performances. Steven Spielberg receives an honorary Knighthood in a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington on 29th January. |
| Feb | On 9th February a US Navy submarine, USS Greeneville, accidentally collides with and sinks a Japanese fishing vessel, Ehime Maru. Nine of the thirty-five people on board the trawler are killed, including four students from the Uwajima Fisheries High School. The NEAR Shoemaker robotic space probe, named in honor of the planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, touches down on 433 Eros on 12th February, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. Ariel Sharon defeats Ehud Barak in the Israeli election for Prime Minister held on 6th April. An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador on 13th February, killing at least 315 people and injuring more than 3,300. It comes a month after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake on 13th January, which killed at least 944 people and injured more than 5,500. Claude Shannon, the mathematician hailed as "the father of information theory", dies on 24th February, aged 84. On 26th February Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of the Taliban, issues a decree ordering the elimination of all non-Islamic statues and sanctuaries in Afghanistan. Accordingly, Taliban soldiers set about destroying of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, two 6th-century statues carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley. On 28th February a car blocking the track causes a collision between two trains at Great Heck, near Selby in Yorkshire. 10 people are killed and 82 injured. It is the third serious rail accident in the UK in 18 months. |
| Mar | The local government elections due to take place in the UK on the first Thursday in May are postponed until 7th June due to the foot and mouth crisis. Glenn Hughes, the 'leather man' from Village People, dies of lung cancer on 4th March, aged 50. On Thursday, 8th March Donald Campbell's speedboat Bluebird, used in his fatal attempt to break the world water-speed record in 1967, is recovered from the bottom of Coniston Water in Cumbria. John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas dies on 18th March, aged 65. On 12th March the UK's Europe Minister, Keith Vaz, is cleared of complaints made against him relating to his business affairs but he is criticised by the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee for failing to answer questions "fully and promptly." On 29th March the Minister is admitted to hospital after passing out in his office for a few minutes. Cartoonist William Hanna dies on 22nd March, aged 90. The Russian Mir space station, the first continuously inhabited long-term research station in orbit, is destroyed in the atmosphere on 23rd March, causing fragments to fall into the Pacific Ocean near Fiji. Gladiator wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 73rd Academy Awards ceremony on 25th March. On Thursday, 29th March Marks & Spencer announces the closure of 18 stores in France and 20 others in Europe. On 5th April three trade unions launch a successful legal challenge, arguing that M&S had broken French law by not consulting the workforce adequately before announcing the closures. Shoppers in Paris demonstrate in the streets and sign a "book of condolences" in protest at the proposed closures. At midnight on 31st March the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, officiates at the world's first state-sanctioned gay marriages, only minutes after the law allowing it comes into force. On the same day Stuart Lubbock, a butcher from Essex, is found dead in the swimming pool at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore. |
| Apr | The former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, is arrested and remanded in custody in Belgrade on 1st April. On the same day a United States EP-3 spy plane is forced to land in China following a mid-air collision with one of two Chinese J-8 fighter planes tracking it. The Chinese plane crashes and the pilot is killed. The number of tourists visiting Britain takes a tumble as the foot and mouth crisis continues. The Welsh comedian, actor and singer Harry Secombe, known for his daft antics with Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers on the BBC radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951-60), dies on 12th April, aged 79. On 28th April US billionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist, spending 7 days, 22 hours and 4 minutes in space with the Soyuz TM-32 mission. |
| May | On 1st May US President George W. Bush set out his plans for a controversial 'Son of Star Wars' missile defence system, aimed at defending the USA from nuclear and chemical missiles fired by so-called 'rogue nations' such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea. TV presenter Ted Rogers, who hosted the Yorkshire Television game show 3-2-1 from 1978-1988, dies on Wednesday, 2nd May, aged 67. Train robber Ronnie Biggs returns to Britain on 7th May. He is arrested upon arrival at Northolt Airport. Singer Perry Como, who had hits in the 1950s, '60s and '70s with songs such as Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes (1953), Magic Moments (1958), And I Love You So and For The Good Times (both of which were hits in 1973), dies on 12th May, aged 88. n Wednesday, 16th May the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, punches a protester who threw an egg at him during a visit to Rhyl. 23 people are killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem on 24th May when the dance floor at the Versailles wedding hall collapses. |
| June | On 1st June King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal and six other members of the Nepalese Royal family are murdered. At the outset the massacre is officially claimed to be an accident. Crown Prince Dipendra, who is later admitted to be the assassin, dies on 3rd June. In the UK general election held on Thursday, 7th June the Labour Party is returned to power with another huge majority. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is executed by lethal injection on 11th June. The President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki pays a State Visit to the United Kingdom from 12th-15th June. Pervez Musharraf becomes President of Pakistan on 20th June. Hollywood star Jack Lemmon dies on 27th June, aged 76. Carry On actress Joan Simms dies on the same day, aged 81. |
| July | Barry George is sentenced to life imprisonment on 2nd July for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando. The BBC Two 'mockumentary' The Office is broadcast for the first time on 9th July. On 17th July a British Airways Concorde successfully completes its first supersonic test flight since its withdrawal form service on 15th August 2000, Following the Air France crash which killed 113 people, the plane's fuel tanks had been lined with Kevlar to prevent a repeat of the tragedy. On 19th July millionaire novelist Jeffrey Archer is jailed for four years after being found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice. On 20th July the London Stock Exchange becomes a public company listed on its own market. |
| Aug | The harmonica player Larry Adler dies on 6th August, aged 87. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise get divorced on 8th August. Betty Everett, who recorded the original version of It's In His Kiss, dies on 19th August, aged 61. On 26th August 460 refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are rescued from their sinking boat by a Norwegian registered freighter, the MS Tampa. The Australian government provides medical assistance and food but refuses permission for the ship to enter Australian territorial waters. Neil Hamilton, the former Tory MP and junior minister, and his wife Christine are arrested and questioned by detectives on 10th August over allegations of a serious sexual assault. On 28th August the charges against them are dropped. |
| Sep | Commonwealth ministers from Britain, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia and Jamaica meet in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to settle the crisis caused by the invasion of white-owned farm land in Zimbabwe. In an agreement signed on 6th September Zimbabwe promises to "restore the rule of law" after 18 months of invasions, intimidation and violence. Britain agrees to fund a "fair, just and sustainable" redistribution of land. On Tuesday, 11th September the darkest hour comes after dawn. Four hijacked airliners crash in the USA, destroying both towers of the World Trade Center in New York and causing damage to the Pentagon. Thousands perish. On 13th September it is announced that Iain Duncan Smith has been elected leader of the Conservative Party. The result was originally due on 12th September, but was delayed because of the terror attacks in the United States. On 27th September a gunman kills 14 MPs in the regional Parliament in Zug, Switzerland. |
| Oct | A Russian airliner crashes into the Black Sea on 4th October, killing all 78 passengers and crew. A week later the Ukraine admits that the airliner had been shot down by its military. Letters containing anthrax are posted to the offices of US news media and US government departments. A British photographic editor, Bob Stevens, who worked at the offices of American Media in Florida, is the first to die of anthrax poisoning on 5th October. 21 others develop anthrax infections, four of whom also die. On 7th October the US Air Force begins a bombing campaign against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, officially named Operation Enduring Freedom. On 8th October a private jet crossing the runway in thick fog at Milan's Linate Airport collides with another plane as it is taking off. All 104 passengers and six crew on board the Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) flight 686 to Copenhagen are killed. The two passengers and two crew members on board the private jet also die. On 17th October the Israeli tourism minister, Revaham Ze'evi, is assassinated by Palestinian gunmen in a Jerusalem hotel in revenge for Israel's killing of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Popular Front leader. The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, suspends all diplomatic contacts with the Palestinian Authority and bans its leader, Yasser Arafat, from using Gaza Airport. The violence in Palestine escalates. General John de Chastelain, the decommissioning chief in Northern Ireland, confirms on 23rd October that he had seen "a significant event in which the IRA has put a quantity of arms completely beyond use". Two lorries collide head-on and burst into flames on Wednesday, 24th October, one mile from the south exit of the Gotthard road tunnel in the Alps. Eleven people die in the blaze. |
| Nov | Air France and British Airways Concordes begin commercial passenger flights again on 7th November for the first time since an Air France Concorde crashed near Paris in July 2000. On 12th November an American Airlines Airbus A-300 (Flight 587 to the Dominican Republic) crashes into the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York shortly after take off. The crash kills all 260 people on board and five people on the ground. Northern Alliance soldiers capture Kabul from the Taliban on 13th November. Pop hit-maker Jonathan King begins a seven-year jail sentence on 21st November for sex offences against five boys. Mary Whitehouse dies on 23rd November, aged 91. George Harrison dies of cancer on 29th November, aged 58. |
| Dec | On 3rd December the energy company Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with debts of $16 billion. On 4th December the Spien Kizuna bridge is opened. Nearly 1.5 kilometres long, it is the first bridge across the Mekong River linking east and west Cambodia. On 12th December Roy Whiting is convicted at Lewes Crown Court of abducting and murdering eight-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Payne, whose naked body he had buried in a shallow grave. He is sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation by trial judge Mr. Justice Richard Curtis that he should never be released. 12 people are killed when 5 gunmen burst into the Indian Parliament in Delhi on 13th December. The gunmen are among those killed. 12 British and 2 Dutch plane spotters are released on bail on Friday, 14th December after spending five weeks in a Greek jail on spying charges. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is re-opened to the public on 15th December following restoration work to prevent it from toppling over, which began in 1990. The singer-songwriter Clifford T. Ward, who scored a Top 10 hit in the Summer of 1973 with the lilting ballad Gaye, dies on 18th December, aged 57, after contracting pneumonia. A state of emergency is declared in Argentina on 19th December, following the collapse of the economy and the outbreak of violence on the streets. The President Fernando De la Rúa resigns at midnight on the same day. Sir Nigel Hawthorne, best known for his role as Sir Humphrey in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, dies on 26th December of a heart attack, aged 72. On 26th December, after 5 years together, the pop group Steps announce in a joint statement that they are splitting up. |
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Darts: Phil Taylor wins the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Championship for the seventh time. He beats John Part in the final, 7-0. |
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