Phones in the box. Stand by your beds. Pile your plate high at breakfast with whatever food is on offer – you’ll need the energy for 18 hours a day of basic training, warns veteran Mike Crofts

Phones in the box. Stand by your beds. Pile your plate high at breakfast with whatever food is on offer – you’ll need the energy for 18 hours a day of basic training, warns veteran Mike Crofts
Mike CroftsWhen kidnappers broke into the home of Alick McKay in 1969, they thought they were abducting Rupert Murdoch’s wife Anna. Instead, they took McKay’s wife Muriel, who was never seen again. Here her daughter, Dianne, now 83, and grandson Mark Dyer tell David James Smith how they are preparing to meet the man who killed her – and finally find out the truth about this brutal and mysterious crime
When kidnappers broke into the home of Alick McKay in 1969, they thought they were abducting Rupert Murdoch’s wife Anna. Instead, they took McKay’s wife Muriel, who was never seen again. Here her daughter, Dianne, now 83, and grandson Mark Dyer tell David James Smith how they are preparing to meet the man who killed her – and finally find out the truth about this brutal and mysterious crime
David James SmithBlack Sabbath rocker, 75, previously apologised for ‘breaking Sharon’s heart’ over infidelity
Black Sabbath rocker, 75, previously apologised for ‘breaking Sharon’s heart’ over infidelity
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