Joe in his army days, left IT IS 76 years ago this week that a young Glasgow soldier found himself in one of the Second World War’s most ferocious battles. Joe Quinn, serving in the 51st Division of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was just 20 years old when he took part in Operation Veritable, or the Battle of the Reichswald Forest. It was the northern part of an Allied pincer movement which took place between February 8 and March 11, 1945, in the final stages of the Second World War. His sister, Sally Conway, 83, explains: “Joe spoke of the camaraderie and hardship he experienced during that period. It was a time that would in a way define the rest of his life.
Young woman afraid to go out after sustained attack by another woman in nightclub toilet
Shannon Chapman, 25, admitted assaulting the young woman in the toilets of Platform 11
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A woman was left afraid to go out after being assaulted in a toilet of a Pontypridd nightclub, a court has heard.
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Shannon Chapman assaulted Jemma Williams, then aged just 18, in a nightclub in Pontypridd. A false nail later found in the victim s bra is thought to have come from the attacker
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Jemma Williams, pictured, was just 18 when she was attacked in a nightclub toilet by Shannon Chapman (Image: Jemma Williams)
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“It melted all over her front, so she never did that again. “Whenever I had a school trip, she’d get me a bag of the broken biscuits and sweets to take with me. I was always very popular with my pals.” The ‘lane’ was also home to a church, a builders’ merchant and a pub christened ‘The Jungle’ by the locals (“that should give you an idea what it was like,” says Sally.) “I can’t remember the name of it, but we used to see the men fighting outside it when they got drunk and things got out of hand,” she says.