Extra, Extra

By Rob Last edited 219 months ago
Extra, Extra
    The gang of Albanian sex traffickers who forced more than 20 teenage girls to work as prostitutes in London were yesterday given jail sentences ranging from five to eighteen years.
  • One of the men accused of murdering John Monckton has told the court he robbed the banker's home to pay off drug debts.
  • The British go a bit crazy on their Olympic pool ideas, the Franch take the piss. Expect this kind of thing to happen a lot in the next 6-7 years.
  • A handwritten manuscript for Beethoven's Grosse Fuge sold for £1.1 million to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's yesterday.
  • The Churchill Museum in the Cabinet War Rooms has won The Council of Europe's Museum Prize for 2006.

Last Updated 02 December 2005