RFK announces the news of the assassination of Martin Luther King

On 4th April 1968 Martin Luther King was shot dead.  It was an age before twitter, social media or even rolling news.  Robert Kennedy announced the news from a back of a flat bed truck in Indianapollis...

With thanks to an old university mate (and Lib Dem Cllr for Clitheroe), Alan Knox, for the tip off.

Football beats London olympics in Google zeitgeist

Every year Google publishes an analysis of what people are searching for on the internet - last year amounting to 1.2 trillion searches.

Interestingly for UK googlers (if there is such a verb) the European football championship proved of more interest than the Olympics.

And the top ten most googled politicians makes interesting - if grim - reading for the three party leaders:

1. Jeremy Hunt
2. Boris Johnson
3. Justine Greening
4. Alex Salmond
5. Michael Gove
6. George Osborne
7. Louise Mensch
8. Nadine Dorries
9. Keith Vaz
10. Ed Vaizey