?An appeal to An Bord Pleanála over Meath County Council’s refusal to grant retention for a mini mansion built without planning permission has still to be decided upon – more than eight months after it was lodged.
Lee Berry, a member of the Black Panther Party who was indicted in the largest case brought against that militant group, and whose personal plight helped inspire one of the most infamous New York City social gatherings, a fundraising party for the Panthers at the home of Leonard Bernstein that was mercilessly satirized by writer Tom Wolfe, died March 7 in a hospital near his home in Laurel, Maryland. He was 78.