On a sunnier but colder day, I spent the morning in the conservatory, planting up two full shelves of Aster seeds and then, this afternoon, fellow Liberal Democrat, Jack Taylor, of Warboys came around and we worked together on the election material for Carol Crompton who is standing in Bury.
The main news today was of the case of the "Birmingham Six" being re-opened with a new police investigation. Sterling, shares and gilts all came under intense selling pressure in a financial turmoil disappointed with John Major's Budget. An aid convoy of 11 lorries carrying 120 tonnes of food has at last got through the civil war battle zone to feed starving Ethiopians.
I am documenting this day in some retrospect and so I will only be able to note certain of it. I spent the morning in the conservatory, planting up two full shelves of Aster seeds. This is one of the very few bedding plants that the doves do not decimate when they have young and are desperate for green stuffs. For the rest of the morning, I was preoccupied with correspondence and other work and then, this afternoon, fellow Liberal Democrat, Jack Taylor, of Warboys came around and we worked together on the election material for Carol Crompton who is standing in Bury.
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The main news today was of the case of the "Birmingham Six" being re-opened with a new police investigation at the request of the Home Secretary. These men were imprisoned in 1974 for the Birmingham Pub bombings following investigations by the since-discredited West Midlands Serious Crime Squad and most people have always doubted their guilt but the authorities have always tried to avoid new enquiries. The hard-liner Lord Chief Justice (chosen by Thatcher) was personally allied to the upholding of their conviction by trying their appeal and any reversal would prove him to have been wrong.
In a deteriorating situation in Eastern Europe, Gorbachev has ordered the Lithuanians to surrender all weapons. An aid convoy of 11 lorries carrying 120 tonnes of food has at last got through the civil war battle zone to feed starving Ethiopians which is a breakthrough indeed. The financial and business community is still disappointed with John Major's Budget and sterling, shares and gilts all came under intense selling pressure in a financial turmoil. Now more than half of Britain's senior businessmen think that Thatcher should go. Today was sunny but colder and more unsettled weather is on the way according to the forecasters.