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Patrick Magee (pictured), one of the IRA's most notorious operatives, planted a bomb behind a bath panel and primed it to explode on the last day of the Conservative Party Conference in 1984.
By: British North Borneo Herald Text Size: Scenes from the past: Sports at the Jesselton Padang in 1915. - Pic for illustration only. 16TH NOV 1938 IT had almost become a proverb amongst the complacent residents of Sandakan that “on Charter day it never rains,” but after this year the proverb is no more. True the Water Sports were held in gloriously fine weather throughout, but such weather only made people come down to the land sports on the padang in the afternoon optimistic and unprovided for the downpour that ruined the later events. The ladies arrived in their summery loveliness...