Word: dartmoor
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...eleven hours aboard a bus on Salisbury Plain. In Scotland, a taxi driver, trapped by snow, burned half a tank of gas just to keep his cab warm, while he waited for assistance. Five schoolboys out on an endurance test were rescued after two nights on storm-swept Dartmoor; a medium had told police where to look. Horse racing, cricket and soccer games were canceled, and the bloom totally vanished from the Harrogate spring flower show...
...Driberg, current Labor Party House Leader Michael Foot, and the latter's brother, Sir Dingle Foot, a former Solicitor General in the Labor government. Raymond was acquitted of the murder, but received three years in prison for impeding the arrest of a criminal. In 1972 he skipped from Dartmoor prison while on a home leave and was later arrested in Australia, posing as an editor of the London Times. After finishing his sentence, he disappeared from sight...
...remarkable statement of police philosophy," two senior Scotland Yard officers sharply criticized the politicians and courts for what they termed excessive leniency. Said Peter Brodie, assistant commissioner in charge of crime investigations: "My colleagues and I remember when a villain got a whacking sentence and was sent to Dartmoor. There he got flogged, he broke stones and he sewed mailbags. After he was released he seldom came back for more. Prison then was a real deterrent. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. They have got television in prisons now and transistor radios in cells. There is a choice...
...curiosity than a sense of competition ("For me the question was not whether it could be done, but whether I could do it"), he undertook a 1,100-mile hike from one end of Britain to the other. In the course of it, he managed to be fogbound on Dartmoor, musclebound in Bristol and sodden in Somerset. He was rained upon almost everywhere (though not, oddly, at a place in Scotland called Hill of Drip), making clear why one of the few Gaelic words he picked up en route was fliuch. It is pronounced, he says, "floo...
...committee readied a final report from hundreds of pages of testimony, the difficulty of its task was doubly clear. While in conference with 104 of Britain's top prison officials at the Civil Defense Staff College in Berkshire, an unexpected phone call came for Governor Peter Jones of Dartmoor prison. As his colleagues stood by with mouths agape, Jones heard the news that his toughest criminal, the so-called "mad axman of Broadmoor," was at that very moment legging it for freedom. Frank Mitchell, 37, a jail bully who once attacked an elderly couple with an ax, had simply...