Thursday, May 05, 2011

Stuart Campbell

The National Portrait Gallery is holding an exhibition of Stuart Campbell's portraits of Australian actors.

Monday, May 02, 2011

Lisa Gormley


News Photos

17 AUGUST 1998. The scene of devastation on Market Street in Omagh, Northern Ireland, after the real
IRA planted a 500lb bomb in a Vauxhall Cavalier. The bomb killed 28, including two babies, five children
and 15 women.
24 APRIL 1993. The damage to the City of London after the IRA detonated a bomb on Bishopsgate.
The lorry bomb was parked less than 50 yards from the Natwest tower, Britain's second tallest building.
7 MAY 1997. Prime Minister, Tony Blair poses with Labour women MPs after his election victory.
28 FEBRUARY 1996. The Prince of Wales is welcomed to a Hindu temple in north-west London.
A spokesman for the Princess of Wales today announced her agreement to divorce the Prince.
1 MAY 2000. Riot police face protestors during a riot on May Day in London. During the May Day march,
hundreds of anti-capatist protestors clashed with police and about 95 arrests were made.
31 AUGUST 1997. A nun pays tribute to Diana Princess of Wales outside Buckingham Palace on
the morning of her death in a car crash in Paris.

21 JULY 1997. The Princess of Wales smiles at the Northwick Park and St Mark's
Hospital in Harrow, Middlesex. This was the Princess's last public appearance.
1 SEPTEMBER 1993. Australian WW1 veteran Stanley Graham (94) is overcome with grief
at a commemorative ceremony at Poziers, France. Stanley was one of 14 Australian veterans
to attend the 75th anniversary of the Western Front battles.

A policeman questions a man who has superglued himself to the gates of Buckingham Palace.


28 JUNE 1995. Elizabeth Hurley leaves a hotel in central London. Hurley's boyfriend, the actor Hugh Grant
was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly having sex with the prostitiute Divine Brown.

4 JULY 1995. Prime Minister John Major arrives at the House of Commons.
Later that day Major won a leadership challenge and retained the Prime Ministership.
16 OCTOBER 1997. The Spice Girls Dolls are launched at a toy trade fair in London.


Add cap18 FEBRUARY 1996. A London bus lies wrecked on Aldwych by the Waldorf Hotel following an IRA bomb blast. At least 8 people were injured in the blast that tore the bus apart.

20 NOVEMBER 1992. A fire burns at Windsor Castle in Berkshire. The fire took 12 hours to extinguish
and damaged about 100 rooms. The cost of restoration was estimated at £40 million.

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