The British actor was the epitome of countercultural chic in key 1970s films. It is just a shame she couldn’t be persuaded to return when her political career ended
For the first time ever, a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey will be televised, the Ministry of Justice announced. A cameraperson will be in court tomorrow as Ben Oliver, 25, is sentenced
LONDON ‘Hilldrop Crescent is a quiet suburban place, although in the inner ring of the Metropolis, and reasoning specifically, it would be the last spot one would have dreamt of for the scene of a sordid murder’. Thus did the British newspaper The Islington Gazette for 15 July 1910 describe the location of one of Edwardian London’s most notorious crimes; the poison murder by Michigan-born Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen of his German-American wife Cora at number 39 Hilldrop Crescent,
Hawley Harvey Crippen, mild-mannered physician who killed his wife, then for a time managed to elude capture, in one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 20th century. Crippen was a homeopathic physician in New York City when he wed Cora Turner (who later took the stage name Belle Elmore) in