BURNED OUT GETAWAY CAR FOUND—used in IRA kidnap plot

PICTURED: Detectives examine the damaged car outside Mr. Denis Howell’s house in Moor Green Lane.



October 1974
The wife of Sports Minister Denis Howell miraculously escaped injury on Monday night (28-10-74) when a bomb blasted their family car. Windows in houses nearby were shattered by the explosion as Mrs. Howell backed the car out of their drive. But she and her ten-year-old son David, who was with her in the car, escaped with only a bad shaking-up. Their escape was a miracle. For as Mrs. Brenda Howell backed the car into Moor Green Lane in Briminghan’s, Warwickshire, smart Moseley suburb, a thin cotton thread was all that stood between them and sudden death. It broke – and saved their lives. The cotton had been holding a 2-pound gelignite bomb to the exhaust pipe of the Howell’s with Ford Cortina. When the cotton broke, the bomb fell away from the car and exploded in the drive, the bomb fell away from the car and exploded in the drive as the car began to pull away. Instead of blasting the car’s occupants to almost certain death, the bomb ripped a hole in the drive and scorched paving slabs.

ANGRY GREEK CYPRIOTS DEMONSTRATE IN LONDON—calling attention to the need to have them removed from the country

PICTURED: Terrified…a weeping child is rescued by the police.




15TH AUGUST 1974
Thousands of Greek Cypriot demonstrators battled with police outside the Turkish embassy in London on Wednesday night (14-8-74), following the new flare up of war in Cyprus. Fifteen demonstrators were arrested and seven people – including three policemen – had to have hospital treatment. The demonstration began peacefully outside the Greek embassy. Then the chanting, banner-waving crowd marched down Park Lane past the Grosvenor House Hotel, where deposed Cyprus president Archbishop Makarios is staying. Wild scenes broke out when Makarios stepped from the barricaded hotel doors to wave to the crowd. Then the 4,000 police had formed ranks outside the building, with a dozen mounted officers behind them. Within seconds the battle had started.

IRISH ON TRIAL FOR EXPOLSIVES—they like to plant bombs in London, the bastards

PICTURED: Police surround Bow Street Court for the hearing, just in case some more Irish people decide to plant some more freaking bombs.


14th March 1973
One of the biggest security operation sever known in Britain was mounted on Tuesday (13-3-73), when ten people appeared in court in connection with the London bomb blasts. When the accused arrived at London’s Bow Street Court, they had an escort of fifty-one policemen. Another fifty surrounded the court as inside, the then – all from Northern Ireland, and including three girls – were charged with conspiring to cause explosions. Armed detectives mingled with onlookers in the street. Everyone entering the building was searched by police.

MISS WORLD FIASCO—unrepentant unwed mother & home wrecker wins; gives up crown

PICTURED: Linda Lovegrove … she plans to name Helen as the "other woman" in a divorce action.



27th November 1974
Unmarried mother Helen Morgan quit as Miss World on Tuesday night (26-11-74), after a reign of just four days. Her dramatic decision followed a day of new controversy over her 18-month-old son Richard. The climax was an announcement by nightclub dancer Linda Lovegrove that she planned to name Helen as the "other r woman" in a divorce action. The 22-year-old Miss United Kingdom wept as she renounced the title that earned her 3,000 pounds and the chance of 50,000 pounds in "extras." She said: "This morning I felt on top of the world, but now that world has collapsed around me." Mrs. Lovegrove, 28, said she would see solicitors about the break-up of her marriage to nightclub worker Raymond Lovegrove, 29. She claimed that Helen was responsible. Mr. Lovegrove said that he me Helen when he was a disc jockey in
Wales, three years ago. Helen’s boyfriend Christopher Clode, 26, the father of her child, was a London’s Royal Albert Hall to see her win the title and the 3,000 – which contest organisers Mecca say she will be allowed to keep. She has said that she has no plans to marry Christopher. After the competition, when rivals protested that it was "immoral" for an unmarried mother to be Miss World, Helen replied: "We are living in 1974, not 1914."



PICTURED: Linda Lovegrove … she plans to name Helen as the "other woman" in a divorce action.

Disgraced former fugitive M.P. John Stonehouse hauled off to Her Majesty's Prison Brixton jail after getting caught on the beach in Miami w/secretary

PICTURED: The prison van carrying Mr. Stonehouse arrives at Brixton Jail.


July 1975
Runaway Member of Parliament John Stonehouse and his secretary, Mrs. Shelia Buckley, arrived back in Britain on Friday (18-7-75) after their extradition from Australia. For the former Labour Minister it marked the end of a trail that began 240 days earlier when disappeared from a Miami beach. They were taken straight to London’s Bow Street police station to be charged. Mr. Stonehouse faces twenty-one charges of fraud and theft involving 172,000 pounds and Mrs. Buckley, six charges involving 42,000 pounds. After remaining in custody overnight, both appeared in court the next morning. Mr. Stonehouse was further remanded in custody while Mrs. Buckley, a 28-year-old divorcee, was granted bail on condition that she lives at her parents’ home in South London.