Hartlepool by-election: Purple powder and angry dogs in 2004 vote
By Francesca Williams
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image captionPaul Watson told a court he threw purple powder over Jody Dunn in the heat of the moment
By-elections can be riotous affairs and Hartlepool s last one in 2004 was no different. The candidates included an ordained doctor who stayed in a tent, a multilingual karate brown-belt barrister who was attacked at the count and a two-time Eurovision Song Contest entrant.
Hartlepool has been Labour for years. Apart from a month in 2019 when MP Mike Hill was briefly suspended from the party, it has been red since 1964.
Francesca Williams, Team England netball player. Pic: Ben Lumley A TEAM-England netball player has visited and inspired young members of her former club in Woodley. Francesca Williams, Commonwealth games 2022 hopeful, visited Woodley Netball Club on April 21, hoping to help with training and to inspire the under-11’s team. Ms Williams was a former member of the club, based in Woodford park Leisure Centre, and joined in with the club training session in the evening. She said: “It was the first club I played for when I was an under-11, so it’s always nice to go back to see my old club - some of my old coaches are still there now.
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By Francesca Williams
image captionThis Daimler was sold to Tony Reason and his friends for just a shilling
Our story about a group of friends who travelled to Eastern Europe on a double-decker bus really got people reminiscing. In 1968, Wendy Scott, who now lives in Newcastle, and her friend Ian Jack from Cambridge, were students at St Andrew s University when they embarked on a summer holiday they will never forget
. Their story prompted a flurry of emails from people telling us about their own adventures in an assortment of unlikely vehicles. Here are a few of them:
Europe, Asia and India in a Commer ex-army truck with gun turret