Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize winner for playwright’s standards, stole a book from Bermondsey library 59 years ago. It was entitled Murphy, written by Samuel Beckett, published in 1938 after 42 rejections, and was his third novel. It contains one of the great chess scenes in which, rather than attacking one another, Murphy and a mental…
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By 1853 there were so many mines laid around Russia that the Allied Fleet supporting the troops in the Crimea was forced to anchor its medical supply ship at Balaklava where it was destroyed by a hurricane on 13 November. The 7,000-ton medical cargo went down to the bottom leaving the British troops to an…
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A mother died from breast cancer because of a single key-stroke error on a computer. Two letters informing her of hospital appointments were sent to the wrong address because the number of her home was typed as ’16,’ instead of 1b.” This meant the cancer was not diagnosed until a year later by which time…
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