Queen urges country to be strong in face of crisis (The Queen has urged the country to unite and said every individual has an important role to play in the coming days and months to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. She said the UK is “entering a period of great concern and uncertainty”, but added that the country’s “history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one”)

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Last October a new pro-grouse shooting group lurched on to the scene in the form of an 'aggressively chanting' mob outside a Harrogate theatre. They were there to protest against Chris Packham (who was appearing at the theatre that night), who they claimed, amongst other things, was 'destroying moorland communities' and they threatened to enter the theatre and disrupt the event. Local...

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Diane Sawyer - is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime newsmagazine while at ABC News. During her tenure at CBS News she hosted CBS Morning and was the first woman correspondent on 60 Minutes. Prior to her journalism career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and assisted in his post-presidency memoirs.

A side note - my father was the principal at Melbourne Heights Elementary which Diane Sawyer attended in Louisville. Her mother was a teacher at the same school and my parents knew their family well.

In 1963, at the age of 18, she won the American Junior Miss pageant.

Her first job in television was as the "weather girl" at Louisville's WLKY television station. I believe that was around 1967.

Top Rock-Roll Trio Killed In Airplane Crash (On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died", after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie")

United States Declares War on Japan; General Says Planes Repulsed at 'Frisco

Victoria Is Dead and Edward Reigns (Queen Victoria was the second-longest reigning British monarch in history, ruling the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. Her death on Jan. 22, 1901, at age 81 was mourned around the world and signaled an end to the Victorian Era)

Barbara Walters - is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. Walters began her career on The Today Show in the early 1960s as a writer and segment producer of women's interest stories. In 1974 she became co-host of the program, the first woman to hold such a title on an American news program. In 1976, she continued to be a pioneer for women in broadcasting by becoming the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News. From 1979 to 2004, Walters worked as a producer and co-host on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. Walters also created, produced, and co-hosted the ABC daytime talk show The View, on which she appeared from 1997 until her retirement in 2014.

On The Today Show with Gene Shalit and Frank McGee (1973)

On The View (left) with President Obama and co-host Joy Behar (2010)

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Xiaoxiang Morning Herald

Calling it a night.............................

Yesterday in Parliament

News, views and features on yesterday's stories in Parliament

Zero Hero! (On Monday, October 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. Larsen's perfect game is the only one in the history of the World Series; it was the first one thrown in 34 years and is one of only 23 perfect games in MLB history)