Bournemouth Air Show this weekend - Enjoy everyone :) Over 390,000 watched the Air Show yesterday.
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Happy Birthday Mini On this day in 1959, Alec Issigonis introduced the Morris Mini-Minor. The little car came about due to the fuel shortage caused by the 1956 Suez Crisis which caused the rationing of petrol. Mini is now the second-most produced car in the UK and is still assembled at the same site in Oxford where it all first started. More than 3,000,000 minis have been produced since its BMW relaunch in 2001. Lord Snowden Twiggy John Lennon Peter Sellers & Britt Ekland Steve McQueen Alice Cooper Drew Barrymore The Italian Job
Joyce Bryant American singer and actress, Joyce Bryant, was born in California on the 14th October 1928 and became famous in the 1940s and early 50s as a theatre and nightclub performer. With her trade-mark silver hair and tight mermaid dresses, Joyce became one of the first African-American sex symbols and became known as the "black Marilyn Monroe". Joyce acquired her silver hair when she was booked to sing at a club where Josephine Baker was also performing. Not wanting to be upstaged, Joyce dyed her hair silver using radiator paint and performed in a silver long mink outfit. In 1952, she became the first black woman to sing at a Miami hotel much to the anger of the Klu Klux Klan and also became one of the first black singers to perform at the Casino Royal in Washington. Joyce gave up her career in 1955, at the height of her fame to devote herself to the Seventh-day Adventist Church which her mother was also a member. In 1953, ...
