AFTER overcoming so many obstacles to stage this year’s Great Yorkshire Show, the organisers could have been forgiven for having despaired as heavy rain poured down on Monday, soaking the Harrogate showground. As it turned out, they had nothing to worry about. Yesterday’s early damp gave way to hot sunshine by mid-morning, sizzling the 26,000 visitors lucky enough to have tickets for the first day of the reduced capacity event. And boy, was it good to be back. As with so many of 2020’s live events, last year’s show was called off due to Covid, with attractions moving online. This year it is being staged over four days for the first time, and many of those attending yesterday were full of praise for organisers the Yorkshire Agricultural Society for getting the show on.
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John Lloyd’s testimony supported the case for the acquittal of the Birmingham Six in 1991
John Lloyd’s testimony supported the case for the acquittal of the Birmingham Six in 1991
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My father, John Lloyd, who has died aged 89, was a productive and talented forensic scientist, whose rigorous analytical skills overturned a series of prominent miscarriages of justice.
John joined the civil service as a forensic chemist in 1966 in the Birmingham forensic laboratory, and developed analytical methods for traces of compounds left by car tyres, explosive or gunfire residues. He published more than 40 academic papers, and his work was recognised with conferment of the degree of doctor of science by Aston University in 1983. He also contributed to international conferences, such as the International Symposium on Analysis and Detection of Explosives in Jerusalem in 1992.