Your pages from the past: Thursday, August 30, 2001
Here's the Express & Star's front page from Thursday, August 30, 2001 - the day a four-year-old boy from the West Midlands drowned in a Worcestershire marina whilst on a boating holiday with his parents.
In order to stop violent crime and catch troublemakers The Beach club nightclub in Temple Street, Wolverhampton, revellers were being issued with swipe card 'passports' to let them in. In order to be allowed into the club, party goers had to give their name, address, and photograph.
Pictured at the top of the page is Pc Karl Bluestone and a separate image of his children, the youngest two he killed along with his wife in a ferocious hammer attack before hanging himself. The older two siblings were able to escape.
At the bottom of the page is a ferris wheel made of 40 wheelbarrows which staff at Walsall's New Art Gallery were trying to sell for £12,500. The story is accompanied by puns such as; 'staff were in a spin' and were 'going round in circles'.
