Doreen Spooner, Fleet Street’s first female photographer who got a front-page scoop when she spotted Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies in a London pub – obituary Doreen Spooner CREDIT: TRINITY MIRROR / MIRRORPIX / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO Doreen Spooner, who has died aged 91, was the first woman to be hired as a staff photographer by a Fleet Street newspaper, when she joined the Daily Mirror in 1949. Over the next 50 years she was as much at home taking pictures of terrorist outrages and riots as she was chronicling celebrity strops and royal indiscretions – or taking “glamour” shots of scantily clad models. “You never mind getting your kit off for Doreen,” one girl was said to have remarked. “It’s like undressing in front of your granny.”  Doreen Beryl Spooner was born in Muswell Hill, North London, on January 30 1928 into a family many of whose men were employed in Fleet Street, her father Len as picture editor at the Daily Herald.... ESPAÑA MI NATURA |
ENGLISH YOUTH GO BESERK ON MAY DAY Posted: 01 May 2019 10:05 AM PDT Naked ambition! Students at Kate and Wills' old university strip off for a sunrise skinny dip as revellers at Oxford party from dusk ‘til dawn in May Day celebration around the countryPUBLISHED: 08:42 BST, 1 May 2019 | UPDATED: 15:32 BST, 1 May 2019 Students at Kate and Wills' old university braved the chilly temperatures for a dawn skinny dip in the sea this morning as May Day celebrations kicked off around the country. The University of St Andrews holds its May Dip on the East Sands every year, with students plunging into the North Sea on the East Sands at 5.30am - traditionally to guarantee luck in their exams. Attendees at this year's event grimaced as they took to the cold water, but thankfully pleasant conditions and a stunning sunrise made for a more pleasant experience than in some previous years. It comes as thousands of Britons take part in May Day celebrations, including University of Oxford students who flooded the streets for the annual 500-year-old tradition of listening to the Magdalen College choir. And in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, the White Rose Morris Men took to Castle Hill for their annual 'Dance of the Dawn' to welcome the new month. May Day is traditionally celebrated as the beginning of spring and has been marked for thousands of years in Britain and other countries in the northern hemisphere.  +25 Students at the University of St Andrews pose for the camera after taking part in the traditional May Dip this morning to see in the new month - one of many May Day celebrations taking place across the country  +25 The students took the plunge on the East Sands as the sun rose shortly before 5.30am. The dry and pleasant weather made the experience slightly less bracing than it could have been  +25 The White Rose Morris Men during their 'Dance in the Dawn' to mark May Day, or Beltane as it was once known, at first light on Castle Hill in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire  +25  +25 In Oxford, students packed the streets for the annual tradition of listening to madrigals sung from the tower of Magdalen College. Some looked to be struggling with the early hour (left) while one man dressed up in May green (right)  +25 The rising sun created a stunning scene at this morning's May Dip in St Andrew's. Jumping into the freezing North Sea at dawn on the first of May is traditionally said to promote good luck in exams  +25  +25 St Andrews advises those who do not fancy taking part in the dip can help by looking after their friends' clothes on the beach. These students (left and right) looked to be enjoying themselves  +25 It was a quick turnaround for these St Andrews students, who sprinted back to dry land after taking part in the May Dip this morning  +25 Students laugh and chat as they take part in the annual May Dip this morning, with some grimacing at the bracing conditions  +25 Students from St Andrews University stand on the beach at East Sands in St Andrews after jumping into the North Sea  +25 Students make a splash in the chilly North Sea at dawn this morning as they take part in the traditional May Day Dip  +25 Students lark around in the North Sea during this morning's May Dip, which hundreds of people attend every year  +25 The May Day Dip is just one of the many traditions that take place at the 600-year-old university in Fife, Scotland  +25 May Dip participants celebrate in triumph after braving the cold North Sea for the St Andrews May Dip - which is said to promote good luck in exams  +25 Oxford University students pose for the camera as they prepare for the annual tradition of listening to madrigals sung from the tower of Magdalen College in Oxford  +25 Huge crowds of students, locals and tourists packed the street outside Magdalen College for the traditional May Day event this morning  +25 Morris dancers perform outside Magdalen College. Madrigals are a form of unaccompanied singing performed by several people  +25 Students get a snap of the choir at the top of the Magdalen College tower. The tradition is 500 years old and celebrates the arrival of spring  +25 The stunning sight of the Thieving Magpie Morris Side (Morris Dancers) during their 'Dance in the Dawn' to mark May Day on Castle Hill in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire  +25 The White Rose Morris Men originally formed in the autumn of 1953, although the roots of the tradition of Morris Dancing date back to pre-Christian times  +25 Morris dancing - seen here on Castle Hill - was first recorded in England in the 16th century and there are now participants worldwide  +25 The White Rose Morris Men dance as the sun rises on Castle Hill in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire on the first day of May this morning  +25 The dancers made the most of the beautiful sunrise as they performed on Castle Hill above the Yorkshire city  +25 The English folk dance, often accompanied by music, has suffered in recent years due to a lack of youngsters taking it up Share or comment on this article:May Day: Students at St Andrews strip off for a dawn skinny dip
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Posted: 01 May 2019 10:03 AM PDT Church warden, 28, 'who suffocated an elderly gay lecturer after working his way into his will was having sex with both him AND a retired headmistress who he also plotted to murder for her money'
PUBLISHED: 11:16 BST, 1 May 2019 | UPDATED: 17:05 BST, 1 May 2019 47shares A church warden started sexual relationships with two pensioners and had them rewrite their wills before murdering one and trying to kill the other, a court heard today. Baptist minister's son Benjamin Field, 28, and magician Martyn Smith, 32, allegedly plotted the deaths of Peter Farquhar, 69, and Ann Moore-Martin, 83, and tried to make them look like an accident or suicide using drugs, alcohol or suffocation. They are on trial at Oxford Crown Court accused of murder, conspiracy to murder and fraud, while Field's younger brother Tom, 24, also faces an allegation of fraud. Benjamin Field allegedly had 'a profound fascination in controlling' - and the defendants were said to have written Ms Moore-Martin messages on her mirrors. Benjamin Field was in a sexual relationship with retired teacher Mr Farquhar - a committed Anglican described in court as being 'torn' about his sexuality. He also allegedly had sex with former headmistress Ms Moore-Martin - proven by a photograph he took of her without her knowledge performing a sexual act on him.  +11  +11 Benjamin Field (left), 28, and Martyn Smith (right), 32, are on trial at Oxford Crown Court accused of murder, conspiracy to murder and fraud  +11  +11 Peter Farquhar (left), 69, and Ann Moore-Martin, 83, died within a year and a half of each other. They lived three doors from each other in the picturesque village of Maids Moreton  +11 Benjamin Field allegedly had sex with former headmistress Ms Moore-Martin (pictured) - proven by a photograph he took of her without her knowledge performing a sexual act on him The pensioners lived three doors from each other in the picturesque village of Maids Moreton, in Buckinghamshire. Mr Farquhar, an author and guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham, died in October 2015, while retired teacher Miss Moore-Martin passed away in May 2017. Benjamin Field and Smith allegedly laced Mr Farquhar's food and drink with psychoactive drugs, some of which were legal to buy online. SHARE THIS ARTICLEShare The court heard alcohol and the drugs combined to leave him a 'dribbling shambles of his former self'. Oliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, told the jury Benjamin Field's 'project' was to befriend a vulnerable person, get them to change their will and then 'make sure they died'. He alleged Benjamin Field and Smith murdered Mr Farquhar and conspired to murder Miss Moore-Martin, who later died from natural causes.  +11 The pensioners lived three houses apart in the village of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire 'The motive was financial gain - laced, as far as Benjamin Field is concerned, with a profound fascination in controlling and manipulating and humiliating and killing,' he said.  +11 Tom Field, 24, of Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies a single charge of fraud 'The means were intricate - you will hear evidence of 'exit strategies', as he called them, involving drugging, and alcohol poisoning, and suffocation whilst asleep or sedated; and falls at home; and attempts to cause heart failure; car crashes, even; and unwitting overdoses. 'The common theme: death made to look like accident or suicide - an elderly, ailing life coming to a sad but predictable end. 'And why? Because, by then, he had deceived each into changing their will so he inherited their respective houses. 'If he was to inherit their houses, they had to die. And if he was to enjoy his inheritance, he had to get away with it.' Mr Saxby went on: 'For Benjamin Field, this was a project: befriend a vulnerable individual, get them to change their will and then make sure they died. 'And it is a project he seems to have relished devising and managing and executing - and, to an extent, documenting - in various notes and diaries he made.  +11 Mr Farquhar lectured at the University of Buckingham and had previously taught at schools  +11 The murders took place in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton 'Indeed, piecing things together, it is clear that his project became his life's work - a life's work of which he was proud and for which he admired himself. Extracts from 'An email about Peter' written by the murder accusedBenjamin Field was a prolific writer, documenting his 'thoughts and activities' in diaries, notes and also electronically, a court heard. Among them was a document titled,An email about Peter. Oliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, read extracts of the two page document to the jury. 'Peter A Scott Farquhar is a man of many contradictions,' Benjamin Field wrote. 'He is a closeted, Christian, homosexual, English teaching pedant, with a seriously problematic attraction to teens, and who continues to privately tutor fourteen and fifteen year old boys in his home. 'I do not suspect him of ever acting inappropriately in any way. This is because I know he is a virgin. 'I first met Peter in my sixth term of university. 'Peter usually acts in a fashion that betrays his fearful nature, over cautious and aged. 'Example: when making a cup of tea, he will go to throw the bag into the cup, but is then stricken by apprehension, and goes to toss the thing several times before dropping it in from a distance of three or five inches. 'It's small, but summarises his entire demeanour - desiring to appear masterful, he contemplates showmanship; his aversion to failure inhibits; he ends up looking far more insecure and shaky than if he was not trying to present himself to the world. 'At the end of term, I called Peter and invited myself over. The reasons for this are manifold, but centre on career-minded avarice - I wanted to work at the university (where he was a guest lecturer), or at Stowe school (where he had been head of English for 21 years), etc. 'So I went over and was amusing and cheered the poor man up. He retired early, to be a novelist, and his day to day existence was lonely. 'Note: Later in our friendship I edited his second novel for him, and suggested that we collaborate on a book. 'This is, once again, my own ambition seeking to exploit both Peter's vanity and his desire for companionship. 'Time passed, I saw Peter again and again. He once came to Olney, and I showed him round the various churches and spoke about the history of the Baptist Christian Tradition in Britain, Blah and Blah. 'Typically, though I would visit him during a free hour or two while I was in Buckingham anyway, and he would make us a meal. 'I had, and still have, a very clear model of relationship's reciprocity or mutuality, which is vulgarly commercial: he gives me things, and he gets me for a length of time. 'Historical example: he lets me stay in the spare room, makes me dinner and breakfast, and in exchange he wins at chess and feels a little less lonely. 'This is needlessly cruel, of course; I do like the man, and appreciate some of the things he's done for me. However, that's not really an interesting thing to say.' 'Peter Farquhar did die. Benjamin Field killed him. Almost certainly by suffocating him. Benjamin Field tried to kill Miss Moore-Martin. By a manner of means. 'But his 'exit strategy' for her was cut short. Because Miss Moore-Martin's niece became involved. And Miss Moore-Martin survived - only to die a little later from natural causes.' Mr Saxby said that Benjamin Field was assisted by Smith. 'It is not entirely clear what Benjamin Field made of Smith,' Mr Saxby said. 'Indeed, it may be that you end up concluding that Benjamin Field is incapable of forming normal, empathetic friendships and relationships - he hinted as much in a recorded conversation with Smith after they had been arrested. 'But Smith was useful to him. And they became friends. And Smith lent Benjamin Field his assistance and support - in part because, like Benjamin Field, he was greedy, in part because he got carried away in Benjamin Field's world of plotting and deceit and death and in part because he was impressed by Benjamin Field, somewhat in his thrall - one witness describes Smith as a 'follower'.' Mr Saxby alleged that Tom Field defrauded Miss Moore-Martin. 'He became involved on the margins - in particular, in relation to a fraud the three of them perpetrated on Miss Moore-Martin, deceiving her into giving Benjamin Field £27,000 to buy a kidney dialysis on the false premise that Tom Field needed one to survive if he was to stay at university. When, in fact, he was fine,' the prosecutor said. 'Tom Field's involvement comprised pretending to be extremely ill when he and Miss Moore-Martin met, playing up to the idea he was in mortal danger and in dire need of help.' Mr Saxby said there were other 'antics' carried out by Benjamin Field, such as burgling the homes of elderly people and the planned deception of a 101-year-old woman. 'Like Peter Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin, these were all people living locally to Benjamin Field and Smith,' he said. 'And some shared something else in common: their names were on a long list prepared by Benjamin Field under the heading, 'clients'. In other words, potential sources of money.' The court heard that Benjamin Field - whose father Ian is a Baptist minister - started at the University of Buckingham in 2011, studying English, and then met Mr Farquhar, a retired teacher, who was lecturing there part-time. He, like Smith, who was also studying English at the university, lodged at different times with Mr Farquhar. Meanwhile, Tom Field was studying music at Cambridge University between 2013 and 2017 and was only at the family home in Olney during term-time. Mr Farquhar, who had taught at Manchester Grammar School and Stowe School and published several novels, was a committed Anglican and attended church regularly. 'Peter Farquhar was gay. A number of friends guessed this and a selected few were told,' Mr Saxby said. 'One witness describes him as being 'torn' about his sexuality.' As Benjamin Field and Mr Farquhar's relationship developed, they underwent a 'betrothal ceremony', which the pensioner described in his handwritten journal as 'one of the happiest moments of my life'.  +11  +11 Thames Valley Police issued these two photographs of Mr Farquhar, who died in October 2015 His journal also suggested their relationship had become sexual. Benjamin Field 'read through diary entries made by ex-teacher'The jury heard that Benjamin Field was in the habit of reading through diary entries made by retired teacher Peter Farquhar, and even copied down choice extracts to see how his poisoning campaign was progressing. Oliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, said: 'Field was in the habit of snooping, of looking at Mr Farquhar's journals - at one stage Mr Farquhar realised this is what he had been doing. 'He caught him doing it but Field was not only reading what Mr Farquhar was writing - he was gaining an insight into Mr Farquhar's thinking and seeing how his plans were playing out on him. 'He was also logging some of them, in whole, in part or in summary, in his own diaries. Quite why, only he can say. Doing so probably made keeping a handle on so complex and carefully planned and coordinated a project, or series of projects, easier. 'But, the Crown would say, Field is an arrogant man and it seems as though he derived satisfaction, enjoyment, even pride, from cataloguing much of what was going on.' The jury was told that Catholic Ms Moore-Martin had been tricked into believing she was receiving biblical messages from God as the 'gaslighting' defendants charged with attempting to murder her wrote messages on her mirrors. It was also heard that Benjamin Field had written a list of methods he would use to 'get rid of' Ms Moore-Martin while making it look like self-euthanasia, including heart attack, dehydration, sex, in the bath and church tower. Benjamin Field had entered into a sexual relationship with the 83-year-old, proven by a photograph he took of her performing a sexual act on him without her knowledge, the court heard. Suspicions began to be raised when she commented to a friend that Benjamin Field had given her a white powder to help her sleep after she was hospitalised following a seizure - suffered as a result of the pair's attempts to murder her, the court heard. She told friend Ellen Gordon 'it worked better than the tablets the doctors have given me.' Benjamin Field and Smith deny charges of murder, conspiracy to murder and possession of an article for the use in fraud. Field, of Olney, Buckinghamshire, also denies an alternative charge of attempted murder. But he has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary. In addition, Smith, of Redruth, Cornwall, denies two charges of fraud and one of burglary. Tom Field, also of Olney, denies a single charge of fraud. The trial continues. Share or comment on this artiESPAÑA MI NATURA |
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