Hungerford...

In Hungerford this evening, where, in 1987, Michael Robert Ryan walked around the town with a handgun and two semi-automatic rifles. He killed 15 people, including his mother, before turning the gun on himself. Ryan’s last words, reported by the police, as they surrounded the local community college where he’d barricaded himself in: “Hungerford must be a bit of a mess. I wish I had stayed in bed.” That’s the only thing I knew about Hungerford, which joins other communities - such as Soham, Dunblane and Lockerbie - in being famous for all the wrong reasons. There’ll be a memorial somewhere in town, but I haven’t seen it…

Kingsclere...